[portland] Django question

Dylan Reinhardt python at dylanreinhardt.com
Sun Jan 11 07:08:34 CET 2009


On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:46 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd counter you can do
> anything with ReportLab to PDF, and PDF is the way most customers want
> their reports, if they think about it (an underused format, can embed
> stuff, internal links -- really fancy if kept electronic, as it should
> be).


Yeah... except that reports are (for better or worse) expected to do more
than just present snapshots of data.

PDF isn't conducive to interactive drill-downs, for example.

$.02
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