[reportlab-users] renderPM

Robin Becker reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:51:40 +0100


In article <509AC355-008C-11D8-8FA1-000393C92466@dalkescientific.com>,
Andrew Dalke <dalke@dalkescientific.com> writes
>Hello,
>
>  Here's the summary version:
>
>  - there's a typo in the graphics documentation; saveToFile
>      should be drawToFile for the renderPM example
>
>  - here is a more complete description of a way to get missing
>      pfb files working for Mac OS X
>
>  - there's a bus error bug somewhere in renderPM that I'm unable
>      to track down
>
>
>  I am trying to get renderPM to work under Mac OS X with Python 2.3
>but I am having/did have a few problems.  I built it from a fresh copy
>out of CVS on top of the latest standard distributions of PIL and
>reportlab.  Here's the driver code
>
..... Andrew is this problem with OS 9 or OS X? I have been having
considerable difficulty with OS 9, but not with OS X. With OS 9 I have a
runtime problem actually reading the files. Just van Rossum seems able
to do the compilation better, but I don't understand how.
-- 
Robin Becker