From eric.j.march at gmail.com Tue Aug 19 04:07:09 2008 From: eric.j.march at gmail.com (Eric March) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:37:09 +0930 Subject: [sapug] crontab create pdf file for faxing Message-ID: Does anyone know of or have experience with creating pdf documents from text? -- Eric March 0418 418 995 www.ebmpl.com.au From twegener at fastmail.fm Tue Aug 19 05:09:43 2008 From: twegener at fastmail.fm (Tim Wegener) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:39:43 +0930 Subject: [sapug] crontab create pdf file for faxing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <48AA3977.50402@fastmail.fm> Eric March wrote: > Does anyone know of or have experience with creating pdf documents from > text? If you want to do it from Python, have a look at ReportLab: http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html Alternatively, you could use a2ps and ps2pdf *nix command-line tools. Tim From dt-sapug at handcraftedcomputers.com.au Tue Aug 19 05:25:28 2008 From: dt-sapug at handcraftedcomputers.com.au (Daryl Tester) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:55:28 +0930 Subject: [sapug] crontab create pdf file for faxing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <48AA3D28.90109@handcraftedcomputers.com.au> Eric March wrote: > Does anyone know of or have experience with creating pdf documents from > text? I used to do that with postscript (I'm a dinosaur), which was a little funkier because you could use the Postscript language to assist in the data layout (nothing quite like a fax page that can evaluate itself). ReportLab is an option for PDF generation under Python - it's been a while since I've used it, but from memory it was a reasonably straight forward product. Cheers, --dt From steve at adam.com.au Wed Aug 27 10:57:24 2008 From: steve at adam.com.au (stephen white) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:27:24 +0930 Subject: [sapug] Python is bad for your health Message-ID: <81D5E3A2-C619-4A7D-818A-79735D5CC58F@adam.com.au> Continuing the Troll Tradition: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7582702.stm Program in Ruby, Nu, Objective-C or OpenGL Shader Language instead. :) -- steve at adam.com.au From dt-sapug at handcraftedcomputers.com.au Wed Aug 27 14:27:19 2008 From: dt-sapug at handcraftedcomputers.com.au (Daryl Tester) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:57:19 +0930 Subject: [sapug] Python is bad for your health In-Reply-To: <81D5E3A2-C619-4A7D-818A-79735D5CC58F@adam.com.au> References: <81D5E3A2-C619-4A7D-818A-79735D5CC58F@adam.com.au> Message-ID: <48B54827.70001@handcraftedcomputers.com.au> stephen white wrote: > Continuing the Troll Tradition: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7582702.stm > > Program in Ruby, Nu, Objective-C or OpenGL Shader Language instead. :) Didn't Ruby kill Oswald? Why would I use such a deadly language? Cheers, --dt