Driving word processors other than MS

[Brett Haydon]

Boost!
That was my next question...I found the reference to SWIG but knew
there was another tool.

Looks like my clients are happy to spend money on Crystal Reports which
now seems to work on a Linux box (the server component anyway).

cheers,

Brett
"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Brett Haydon" <bbhaydon at bigpond . com> wrote in message
> news:Pz_z6.11825$45.67392 at newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have YATS (Yet Another Templating System) which I use to build
> > plain text and MS Word reports (and html) and then convert to PDF
> > to view on a web site.
> >
> > I'm seeing lots of action on open source word processors but does
> > anyone know of one scriptable from Python as a replacement for
> > MS word (so I can run it on Linux).
> >
> > I see that staroffice has a C++ api. Perhaps some talented person has
> > written a wrapper.
>
> I've thought about it, but done nothing about it, yet -- maybe I
> will once I get my new machine, which will be a Linux box.  However,
> I noticed StarOffice also has a _Java_ api -- I suspect that
> using Jython to drive *that* might be simpler than writing a
> wrapper to allow using CPython, even with Boost... since any Java
> api IS already its own 'wrapper' for Jython's purposes...!-)
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> Alex
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