Pretty report printing

[Lyle Johnson]

Dale,

Instead of answering your question directly, let me just pass along a link
which might be of interest to you:

    http://www.reportlab.com/

To quote their FAQ list, "The ReportLab Project is a collection of open
source Python language modules under the Python copyright organized and
supported by ReportLab. They are primarily concerned with automated methods
for generating Portable Document Format (PDF) files."

Hope this helps,

Lyle

"Dale Strickland-Clark" <dale at out-think.NOSPAMco.uk> wrote in message
news:frpdvsgdu444fhev877ajo5tdcbvpk69tq at 4ax.com...
> I need to produce a bunch of standard reports from a database and am
> considering Python.
>
> The reports need to be pretty but probably text only (although borders
> and boxes would be nice). They should be previewable online and
> printable to any Windows printer.
>
> I like the idea of using HTML but it doesn't understand the printed
> page so headings, headers and footers are trickey.
>
> Other options include PDF (which I'd have to research cos I know
> nothing about it) and driving Word or Excel through COM to build pages
> - which isn't an attractive thought.
>
> How have others tackled this problem?
>
> Thanks
> Dale Strickland-Clark
> Out-Think Ltd
> Business Technology Consultants
>
>