[reportlab-users] display report without writing to disk

[Tim Smith]

cheers, is there a cross platform way i can call apps like this?
Uwe C. Schroeder wrote:

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>On Saturday 09 October 2004 09:40 pm, Tim Smith wrote:
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>>Tim Roberts wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 09:36:56 +1000, Tim Smith <tims@cqpl.com.au> wrote:
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>>>>is there a way to just display my report before writing it to file?
>>>>i'd be using wxpython as my gui.
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>>>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".
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>>>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.
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>>can you give me an example of how you call acrobat?
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>on win32 just use
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>os.startfile(filename)
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>This call will use the OS registrated application for that filetype.
>Win usually determines the filetype by extension, so if you create a temporary 
>file make sure it has the right extension (.pdf)
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>	UC
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