Re: Noob: Python DocBook to PDF

[Oleg Parashchenko <olpa@xmlhack.ru>]

Hello Michael,

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:51:58 -0500
Michael Hipp <Michael@Hipp.com> wrote:

...
> So my constraints are:
> - Printouts are mostly defined outside of program code (e.g. template
> files)
> - Changing data can be inserted into the template processing stream
> with minimal fuss
> - Standards-based; some degree of future-proof; minimal dependence on 
> single vendor
> - Options for various output types (i.e. PDF, web, etc.)
> - Mostly written by someone other than me (I've enough to do)
> - Without the hood welded shut
> - Callable from Python
> - Multi-platform (Win & Lin)
> - As lightweight and resource stingy as possible
> - A visual report designer would be nice, but not a necessity
> 
> Mostly I've come down to these options:
> 1. DocBooks using xsltproc and apache-fop
> 2. RML using Tiny rml2pdf
> 3. OpenRpt
> 4. PythonReports

I'd suggest the option five: use LaTeX. With TeXML, generation of the
LaTeX code is easy. The only problem is that you have to know LaTeX.

> 
> 
> Michael

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