Help with PDF

Dinu Gherman dinu at reportlab.com
Mon Jul 23 03:02:41 EDT 2001


On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 20:48:07 GMT, "Mark Nenadov"
<mnenadov at stclairc.on.ca> wrote:

>>>The best solution for Python and PDF that I have found is PDF-Lib
>>>(www.pdflib.com). I have used it with Python, and it also work with a
>>>wide variety of other languages.
>>
>> What do you mean by "best"? ;-)
>> Dinu
>
>What do I mean by best? Exactly what I said... "The best solution ....
>that I have found". I haven't tried ReportLab yet, so I can't make a
>judgement on that yet... but PDF Lib is the best one that I have used so far.

Certainly, but isn't that a bit vague without saying what you 
used PDFlib for?

For the fun of it I suggest you run the test suite in reportlab/
test and then try to reproduce some of the generated PDF files 
with PDFlib using as as little generating Python code as with
the reportlab package.

Regards,

Dinu

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