reportlab and python 3

[wxjmfauth at gmail.com]

Le lundi 17 septembre 2012 10:48:30 UTC+2, Laszlo Nagy a écrit :
> Reportlab is on the wall of shame. http://python3wos.appspot.com/
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> Is there other ways to create PDF files from python 3? There is pyPdf. I 
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> haven't tried it yet, but it seem that it is a low level library. It 
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> does not handle "flowables" that are automatically split across pages. 
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> It does not handle "table headers" that are repeated automatically on 
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> the top of every page (when the table does not fit on a page). I need a 
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> higher level API, with features compareable to reportlab. Is there such 
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> thing?
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> Thanks,
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>     Laszlo

A big yes and it is very easy. I assume you know how
to write a plain text file with Python :-).

Use your Python to generate a .tex file and let it compile
with one of the pdf TeX engines.

Potential problems:
- It requires a TeX installation (a no problem).
- Of course I requires some TeX knowledge. Learning it
is not so complicate. Learn how to use TeX with a text
editor and you will quickly understand what you have to
program in Python. Bonus: you learn at the same time
a good text editing engine.

I can not figure out something more simple, versatile and
powerful.

jmf