Thanks, I'll check out those links.
-Kyle Rickey ________________________________ From: Gerdus van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 4:11 AM To: Rickey, Kyle W Cc: python-win32@python.org Subject: Re: [python-win32] Dispatch InternetExplorer.Application fails Have you seen www.htmltopdf.org? Otherwise might I suggest http://www.openreport.org/; you could then transform your XML into RML(xml reporting format) into a PDF. You can also design RML with OpenOffice. ~Gerdus On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Rickey, Kyle W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tim, thanks for your response. I realize where I've got this messed up. I had turned off Windows File Protection for C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer So that I could replace internet explorer with my own executable that calls firefox :) The reason for this is some of our proprietary software is hardcoded to launch files in IE, but there are advantages to using firefox instead. Anyway, that's a bit off topic. I restored the real IE and rebooted and now >> ie = win32com.client.Dispatch("InternetExplorer.Application") works as expected. I'm also checking out PAMIE but I'm beginning to think I may be going about this whole thing the wrong way. Basically, said software above generates reports as xml files. The xml file references an xsl file used to transform the report. This xml gets launched and transformed by IE. What we want to happen is a way to take that xml file and go to PDF. As it is now we have to print from IE to the Adobe Acrobat PDF printer. This is cumbersome for the amount of reports that need run. So here are some solutions I was considering: 1) COM into IE and load the xml, print it to PDF. Works, but we still get prompted for the file name to save the pdf as (my code could supply an appropriate name) 2) use some python libraries (libxml2, libxslt) to transform the xml to html. That part works but now how to I make a pdf from the html file? 3) COM into Adobe Acrobat and generate the pdf (no idea where to begin) 4) Rewrite entire reporting system to use pdf natively. Since the data is freely available in our SQL server, this would be possible, but very time consuming. I'm open to suggestions on a better way to go about this. Also, assuming I changed the registry to point to iexplore2 (original IE) would COM'ing into work? Kyle Rickey -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Golden Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:46 PM Cc: python-win32@python.org Subject: Re: [python-win32] Dispatch InternetExplorer.Application fails Rickey, Kyle W wrote: > Whenever I try the following: > >>> import win32com.client >>> ie = win32com.client.Dispatch("InternetExplorer.Application") > > I get this traceback: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module> > File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line > 95, in Dispatch > dispatch, userName = > dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userName,clsctx) > File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line > 98, in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName > return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName) > File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line > 78, in _GetGoodDispatch > IDispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx, > pythoncom.IID_IDispatch) > com_error: (-2147024894, 'The system cannot find the file specified.', > None, None) > > Any ideas what would cause this? My end goal is to COM into IE and load > an xml file, then print it to PDF. FWIW, you might find it worth looking at PAMIE which uses COM the way you're doing, but which has already ironed out a few creases. That said, it doesn't really answer your question. Can you see what result this script gives: <code> import os import _winreg hKey = _winreg.OpenKey ( _winreg.HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, r"InternetExplorer.Application\CLSID" ) clsid, type = _winreg.QueryValueEx (hKey, "") print clsid hKey = _winreg.OpenKey ( _winreg.HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, r"CLSID\%s\LocalServer32" % clsid ) server, type = _winreg.QueryValueEx (hKey, "") print server, os.path.exists (server.strip ('"')) <code> This should, crudely, go through the same steps that the Dispatch process does and should show up whether IE's not where it thinks it should be. The strip () on the server name is because, on my machine, the location is double-quoted, presumably because it's got an embedded space which would cause some problem in the mechanism. TJG _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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