I have some experience with option 1. I definitely cannot recommend it. Number 2 sounds best. You may want to have a look at Zope... don't know what they are using to do it (maybe ReportLab), but I remember seeing among its list of features that it could dynamically-generate PDF's.
hope this helps... Barring all-else, maybe you could use the python perl module... I'm sure Perl has a number of PDF libraries. > > 1) Produce HTML but try to format it for a printer, not screen. > Pagination will always be a problem, but this is the quickest way > to do it. > > 2) Use the PDF format and learn how to use ReportLab. I must > confess > that the online tutorial seems daunting. In any case, the reader > will > have to install Adobe Acrobat Reader to have a look at the document, > and > not all employees at our clients have one installed. I do like this > method the best right now. > > 3) Learn how to use the RTF format. At least every user can open > and > print such a document from Wordpad if nothing else. Downside is, > noone > has an RTF based report generator for Python unless I'm mistaken ? > Writing > in raw RTF doesn't sound fun. > > 4) Generate a Word Document by running Word via COM on the webserver > where our system is running. This might crash the webserver and is > probably > slow ? > > If someone has experience with one of the above methods or knows > about > yet another way to do this, I'd love to hear about it ! > > Best regards, > > Kari Hardarson, Iceland > _______________________________________________ > ActivePython mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > Other options: > http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/ActivePython > ===== __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ActivePython mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs Other options: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/ActivePython
