Garrett,
Thanks. I used your suggestion and am now getting a 403 ("Forbidden")
error instead of 404 -
but at least the web server is finding the file.
Right now I am only serving up static PDF files. I don't have any
experience with programmatically filling in blanks in a PDF form.
w.
On Jan 1, 6:43 am, Garrett Davis <garrettdavis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a site -http://froi.appspot.com/- that serves up static pdf
> documents without a problem.
>
> I happen to have created a separate folder for them, so the app.yaml
> entry looks like this:
>
> - url: /pdf
> static_dir: pdf/
>
> Note that, as with any 'static' files, the app server can serve them
> directly, but the Python application code cannot access them. Maybe
> that is how you are getting those '404' errors.
>
> What I need to do, but can't do yet, is process "pdf forms" - have the
> app take a blank pdf document and "fill in the blanks" with data
> entered by the user. There are open-source Java libraries to do this,
> but I couldn't find any pure-Python code that I could load into the
> App Engine. I started to try a port of a Java library to Python, but
> after looking at a lot of Java source, my eyes glazed over.
>
> Are you, or is anyone else, working with pdf forms?
>
> Garrett Davis
>
> On Dec 30 2008, 8:55 pm, warreninaustintexas
>
> <warreninaus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > When i use the sample code for image files (from the App Engine
> > documentation) in my app.yaml file, it works fine:
>
> > - url: /(.*\.(gif|png|jpg))
> > static_files: static/\1
> > upload: static/(.*\.(gif|png|jpg))
>
> > When I add pdf as a static file type ...
>
> > - url: /(.*\.(gif|png|jpg|pdf))
> > static_files: static/\1
> > upload: static/(.*\.(gif|png|jpg|pdf))
>
> > ... it produces a "404 - File Not Found" error from the web server.
> > Does anyone know how to configure app.yaml for pdf documents?
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