Generate report containing pdf or ps figures?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <132pnp6r4qg0lc2 at corp.supernews.com>,
Grant Edwards  <grante at visi.com> wrote:
>I need to be able to generate a PDF report which consists
>mostly of vector images (which I can generate as encapsulated
>Postscript, PDF, or SVG).  What I need is a way to combine
>these figures into a single PDF document.  Right now the
>reports consist entire of these figures, so I just write the
>figures out to temp files and then use os.system() to run
>ghostscript with appropriate options to combine them into a
>single PDF file.
>
>I'd like to be able to add some text and/or place the figures
>in a manner other than one per page in the output document.
>
>I've looked at ReportLab's documentation, but although it
>appears to be able to use bitmap images (e.g jpeg) it doesn't
>appear to be able to use vector images (EPS/PDF/SVG).
>
>Is there a PDF generation library that can place EPS or
>PDF figures on a page?
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You're stuck.

If I understand what you're after, you're probably going to
end up finding a way to leverage Ghostscript.  There are a
lot of ways to move forward in this area, but GS has most of
'em beat, despite all its liabilities.

That's my summary.  I've done quite a bit in this area, and
am happy to talk about specifics.

I have two recommendations:  see if anything in <URL: 
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.text.pdf/PDF_converters.html >
resonates with you; and e-mail the nice folks at <URL:
http://www.pdf-tools.com/ >.

I've taken the liberty of cross-posting to c.t.p.  Python 
alone isn't big enough (yet) to solve your problem.