[reportlab-users] display report without writing to disk

[Uwe C. Schroeder]

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On Saturday 09 October 2004 09:40 pm, Tim Smith wrote:
> Tim Roberts wrote:
> > On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 09:36:56 +1000, Tim Smith <tims@cqpl.com.au> wrote:
> >> is there a way to just display my report before writing it to file?
> >> i'd be using wxpython as my gui.
> >
> > Not easily.  You could probably pipe it into GhostScript, but it's a
> > lot easier to write it to a file and automatically invoke the Acrobat
> > Reader.  I use Acrobat as my "print preview".
> >
> > The only downside is that Acrobat keeps the file open while it is
> > being displayed, so you cannot overwrite it.  You have to close the
> > document before each run.
>
> can you give me an example of how you call acrobat?

on win32 just use

os.startfile(filename)

This call will use the OS registrated application for that filetype.
Win usually determines the filetype by extension, so if you create a tempor=
ary=20
file make sure it has the right extension (.pdf)

	UC

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