Re: [Tutor] printing in python 3.x
"Monte Milanuk" wrote ... I was under the impression that controlling exactly layout via html was kind of difficult and somewhat fragile. Absolutely true, especially compared to PDF. But its much better than it was say 10-15 years ago. But if you can construct the page such that precision layout is not required that isn't too big a problem. perhaps less so as one could make some fairly concrete assumptions about the paper size being used in this situation. Is it common to use HTML for formatting printed reports?!? Could you give an example of how you'd control the layout of specific fields on a printed report? Its not unknown. It depends on how precise it needs to be. But if you use tables extensively, with fixed widths etc you can get fairly good control. Also use CSS stylesheets to control fonts etc. HTML for printing is almost the opposite of HTML for browser display - you avoid all the flexible size settings etc and use fixed sixes and fonts. The great thing about HTML is that you can very quickly try things out manually before committing the effort of generating it by code. If you are in control of the printed output then you should be able to get precision good enough. If not then PDF may be your best bet. One option is to get the HTML working well then print to a PDF printer file. Then you can ship the PDF file with its precise layout but retain the ease of production of the HTML. -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] printing in python 3.x
Alan, Perhaps this is a silly question (and possibly not strictly python-related) but I was under the impression that controlling exactly layout via html was kind of difficult and somewhat fragile. The latter perhaps less so as one could make some fairly concrete assumptions about the paper size being used in this situation. Is it common to use HTML for formatting printed reports?!? Could you give an example of how you'd control the layout of specific fields on a printed report? Thanks, Monte ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] printing in python 3.x
"Rance Hall" wrote But shop owner wants to do something nicer with the customer receipts. He is talking shop logos and pdf files. The simplest technique is probably to generate an HTML file and then get the OS to print that for you via the default browser. Google keeps bringing up ReportLib and the python imaging library, but neither have a 3.x compatible version yet. THats much harder work IMHO than using an HTML file as a template. Shop owner is talking about eventually being able to save customer check in tickets and check out tickets on a web site where clients can log in and check on their work. And HTML woyuld definitely be easier here! My thought is that this is perfect for PDF files, but they aren't available on 3.x yet. Well you could hand crank them, they are just text files after all. But HTML is much easier to generate by hand! I looked at word integration and openoffice integration and they dont look ready for 3.x yet either. The Pywin32 and ctypes modules all work on Python 3 so you could use COM integration, or even WSH. But HTML stioll gets my vote. HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] printing in python 3.x
I've been working on this cli based python 3.x app for a friends shop. So far, everything is working well. We are now ready to start development on a new module of my code. The shop is a repair shop, and I've already done the code for client management and employee management and all the framework and supporting stuff, but now its time to check in broken items for repair and print a reciept for the customer and a shop ticket for the item. shop tickets are easy to do *we think*, we think all we need to do is create a "template" text file, and open that text file, sub markers for real data, and create a temp file then send that to the printer with the functions of the underlying OS. In my tests on windows this worked fine. But shop owner wants to do something nicer with the customer receipts. He is talking shop logos and pdf files. I have several issues. Google keeps bringing up ReportLib and the python imaging library, but neither have a 3.x compatible version yet. Shop owner is talking about eventually being able to save customer check in tickets and check out tickets on a web site where clients can log in and check on their work. My thought is that this is perfect for PDF files, but they aren't available on 3.x yet. What other options do I have? I looked at word integration and openoffice integration and they dont look ready for 3.x yet either. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
