[Zope-dev] Re: Transaction support on MySQL

Pavlos Christoforou pavlos@gaaros.msrc.sunysb.edu
Sun, 26 Sep 1999 21:51:33 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Bjorn Stabell wrote:

> Evan wrote:
> > Unless you want to generate PDF or Postscript files on the fly, you are
> > *not* going to get what you want from a browser-based application,
> > regardless of the server.  Neither Zope nor any other Web App can
> > control how your browser will print an HTML page (AFAIK).
> 
> There is a PDF package for Perl, but I don't know of any for Python.
> If there are, then you can relatively easily generate PDF on the fly.
> 

I have a dynamic PDF generation library and a minimal html to PDF
conversion script (enough to support Structured Text) all written in
Python. No table support yet.

You can get it from:
http://starship.python.net/crew/pavlos/ 

It was originally intended to provide PDF support for Zope but it is a bit
slow, unless some caching scheme is used.

There is one more PDF library for python by Andy Robinson but I do not
remember the URL.

Pavlos