2012/3/7 megha <megha.vishwan...@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Need suggestions for python packages that can help generate reports
> with predefined templates. For e.g, you may see
> http://www.klp.org.in/reports/Kannada/MP_Bangalore_Central.pdf we
> generated as edu profile information reports per constituency here in
> Bangalore.
>
> This is printed of the web page backed by a charting app in web.py and
> uses css for styling and google chart api for charting.
>
> If I had build the same thing completely off the browser as a backend
> process, do you have any recommendations of python packages one could
> use within the framework for the whole process of charting, fitting it
> to a templates, unicode support and pdf generation.
>
> Any recommendations would help,

Reportlab is popular for this kind of tasks, but it doesn't work well
with non-latin fonts.

webkit2pdf seems to be doing a good job of creating pdf from a web
page and it handles non-latin fonts well. It is available as an apt
package on ubuntu.

Anand

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