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Perseo mturillo at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 10:30:13 EDT 2006


Hi again,

I must create a webpage with this service not a standalone software. Is
it correct, anyway? have you a little example to show me? Thanks for
your suggestions.

Frithiof Andreas Jensen wrote:
> "Perseo" <mturillo at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1156109528.138808.179610 at i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > we are looking for a python developer for a European project. This
> > project is multilangual and free it is called EuroCv and it need a
> > module for exporting data in PDF.
>
> A brute-force approach could be to sidestep PDF and design a
> template(s) in LaTex containing fields identified by strings. LaTeX
> can produce many formats, one of those is PDF.
>
> Then have your output module read the template, do a search & replace
> of the fields with values (remembering to quote the characters that
> LaTex will choke on and removing the codes for the blank fields) and
> write the finished LaTeX document to disk. (Maybe there are even
> templating modules in Python that will take care of this).
>
> Then compile the documents with latex, run the resulting *.dvi file
> through dvipdf and return a link to it. This is a "compiler pattern".
> You need a naming scheme to identify your file(s) but the rest is
> pretty old.
>
> The Python application "scons" (a make replacement) can control the
> "build" process - in case that you are not on a unix box - one could
> have "build" application periodically looking for *.tex files and
> compile them into *pdf whenever one is deposited in the right place.
> Scons support distributed builds b.t.w.
>
>
> > As web developer I try to create this
> > module but It's too complicate for me. Check out the service
> > www.eurocv.eu for more details. Contact us by Skype chat system our
> > nick is eurocv.
> >
> > Thanks
> >




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