ReportLab vs. PDFLib for python?

Cameron Laird claird at lairds.com
Mon Dec 23 08:20:00 EST 2002


In article <3e0700b1$0$140$edfadb0f at dread12.news.tele.dk>,
Johan <johan at contillion.com> wrote:
>Hi people,
>
>Im right now building a application that will create an PDF file for
>printing. (High-quality printing). The basic solutions is that I have build
>a Service server in Python. It get some commands and will then create some
>PDF files from the template that is requested.
>
>But here I get the problem. I would love to use ReportLab, but I can't find
>any way to import an existing PDF file into a other PDF file? Is it
>possible? (Something like PDFLib's commercial PDI module?). Or do I have to
>switch to PDFLib to get this?
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ReportLab in fact issues no-charge licenses for its import_HTML
functionality; at least, ReportLab representatives have done
so for *me*, and have told me repeatedly that they intend to do
so more generally.  Apparently administrative issues remain be-
fore this is as simple as it should be.

I hope a ReportLab person will join this thread sometime this
week.

It just occurred to me that you might not realize ReportLab's
commercial package includes import_HTML, and you can have that
immediately.  Is that a sufficient answer to your question?
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Cameron Laird <Cameron at Lairds.com>
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