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  Looking PDF module Hegedüs Ervin <airween@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 09:23 +0200
    Re: Looking PDF module mando <mandoluca@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 00:37 -0700
      Re: Looking PDF module Hegedüs Ervin <airween@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 10:37 +0200
    Re: Looking PDF module "neil.suffield@gmail.com" <neil.suffield@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 04:45 -0700
      Re: Looking PDF module Cameron Laird <claird271@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 09:59 -0700
        Re: Looking PDF module Ervin Hegedüs <airween@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 22:40 +0200
    Re: Looking PDF module jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2011-06-25 06:59 -0700

#8354 — Looking PDF module

Hello Everyone,

I'm looking a good PDF module for Python 2.x - I've never used
any PDF in Python, I don't know, what would be a good choice.

There are several PDF tool for Python - this is my problem :)

What I need:
- utf8 support
- create header and footer
- (in headers there are small images)
- tables
- left and right side handling (this will be a book)
- various page numbering (eg.: I/1, I/2, ... or simple numeric
  form)
- TOC generating


Any help would comes well,

thanks:


a.

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#8357

Take a look to reportlab:

http://www.reportlab.com/software/opensource/

Bye bye

Luca

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#8361

hello,

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:37:40AM -0700, mando wrote:
> Take a look to reportlab:
> 
> http://www.reportlab.com/software/opensource/

thanks, I'll check it out,


a.
 

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#8373

You might also want to have a look at Pisa ( http://www.xhtml2pdf.com/
) . It's based on reportlab but might suit you better.

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#8388

On Jun 24, 6:45 am, "neil.suffi...@gmail.com"
<neil.suffi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You might also want to have a look at Pisa (http://www.xhtml2pdf.com/
> ) . It's based on reportlab but might suit you better.

There's more to the story.  As with many things, the answer is, "it
depends".
In this case, there are so many variables that I probably should write
up an
article outlining the pertinent ones ...

Hegedüs Ervin, it's quite likely that ReportLab will be a good
technical fit
for you.  Are you in a position to pay licensing fees for advanced
features?
Do you have any requirements to *merge* PDF instances?  How stringent
are your
performance requirements?

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#8411

hello,

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:59:17AM -0700, Cameron Laird wrote:
> Hegedüs Ervin, it's quite likely that ReportLab will be a good
> technical fit
> for you.
it's a good news :)

> Are you in a position to pay licensing fees for advanced
> features?

no :(

> Do you have any requirements to *merge* PDF instances?

may be, hope I don't, but currently I don't know,

> How stringent
> are your
> performance requirements?

there isn't stringent...


thanks:


a.

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#8446

On 24 juin, 09:23, Hegedüs Ervin <airw...@gmail.com> wrote:

[...]

> Any help would comes well,
>
> thanks:
>

I do not really understand the relation
Python <-> "this will be a book".

For editing purpose, do you need to extract your raw material for
somewhere? to create graphics? to parse files?

or

Are you expecting to compose your book with Python knowing you
have the existing material (texts, pictures, ...) and a PDF tool?

In the former case, generate a TeX text file (.tex).
In the latter case, use TeX. :-)

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