Dabo 3-tier desktop framework for data-aware apps

Andrew Bennetts andrew-pythonlist at puzzling.org
Thu May 13 01:36:04 EDT 2004


On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 05:19:56AM +0000, john fabiani wrote:
> Peter Hansen wrote:
> >john fabiani wrote:
> >
> >>I'm guessing but I bet that simple text can be sent to a printer using 
> >>Python (looping of course).  But in today's world most users want 
> >>graphics along with the data.  Like an invoice with a logo, boxes 
> >>around the bill to and ship to, along with column lines.  So I'm 
> >>hoping that someone has at least started a project to print reports.
> >
> >
> >That would be "ReportLab", I would think...  Google for it.
> >
> >-Peter
> I book marked it - but it looks like a web solution??????

Not at all.  It's a python library that can generate PDFs for you -- it's
very well suited to making things like pretty invoices.  I've used it to do
exactly that in one of my past jobs.

-Andrew.





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