[reportlab-users] Re: SQL ReportLab Example Question..

Tue Aug 16 14:49:38 EDT 2005

Thanks for your postings...

And special thanks to "John Pywtorak". You are absolutlely correct in your assesment of my particular situation. I investigate on how to get Python to run in my IIS box. I figure it's probably just adding another application to interpret source files.

Thanks again,
AL

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>   1. Re: using images as bullets (John Pywtorak)
>   2. SQL Platypus Example (longoal at optonline.net)
>   3. SQL ReportLab Example Question.. (longoal at optonline.net)
>   4. Re: SQL ReportLab Example Question.. (Robin Becker)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:14:14 -0700
> From: John Pywtorak <jpywtora at calpoly.edu>
> Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] using images as bullets
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> Robin Becker wrote:
> > Nicholas Wieland wrote:
> > 
> >>  - Britt Hibbert :
> >>
> >>>   Hi,
> >>>
> >>>   Does anyone have any experience using an image as a bullet when
> >>>   bulleting a list  ( basically a list of Paragraph objects) ? 
> If so,
> >>>   any recommendations on simple methods of doing this would be 
> greatly>>>   appreciated.
> >>
> >>
> >>  
> >> Well, I've posted a ton of silly questions in the last few 
> weeks on
> >> RL, so
> >> take my "advice" with a truckload of salt :p
> >> I'd suggest to subclass the Paragraph flowable, adding an 
> argument to
> >> the initializer with the image you want to use.
> >> Then in the draw method you can use your image as you like, 
> adding extra
> >> padding to the paragraph itself and drawinng the image where 
> you like.
> >> Never tryied with Paragraph, but this is usually what I try 
> when I
> >> want to
> >> personalize a flowable.
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >>   ngw
> > 
> > That's probably good advice. We don't currently have any way to 
> embed> non character boxes etc inside standard paragraphs.
> 
> Just a thought.  I needed this facility and went with a table with two
> cells.  One cell has the bullet image and the other the Paragraph
> flowable.  Also, if you do go the route of a custom flowable there 
> is a
> flowable Paragraph with an image to the right called ParagraphAndImage
> in reportlab.platypus.flowables.
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> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:18:55 -0400
> From: longoal at optonline.net
> Subject: [reportlab-users] SQL Platypus Example
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> From: longoal at optonline.net
> Subject: [reportlab-users] SQL ReportLab Example Question..
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> I am trying to get an example on how to incorporate a data 
> recordset with ReportLab. 
> 
> One way that I was thinking about doing this was:
> 
>  1. Open a file stream Or Python Report Source(ie; .py file)
>  2. Write all the ReportLab headings i.e; import .....
>  3. Write to the file and open up a DATA declaration.(ie. data = (
>        ('', 'Jan', 
>  4. Open a recordset and iterate and append to the DATA declaration.
>  5. close the DATA declaration and close the .py file
>  6. Shell execute the file which should create the "PDF" file.
> 
> Any ideas on how to do this a different way?
> Thanks in advance,
> AL
> ps. currently getting data from Oracle 10g Database using OCI and 
> ASP/IIS.
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:48:09 +0100
> From: Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com>
> Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] SQL ReportLab Example Question..
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> longoal at optonline.net wrote:
> > I am trying to get an example on how to incorporate a data 
> recordset with ReportLab. 
> > 
> > One way that I was thinking about doing this was:
> > 
> >   1. Open a file stream Or Python Report Source(ie; .py file)
> >   2. Write all the ReportLab headings i.e; import .....
> >   3. Write to the file and open up a DATA declaration.(ie. data 
> = (
> >         ('', 'Jan', 
> >   4. Open a recordset and iterate and append to the DATA 
> declaration.>   5. close the DATA declaration and close the .py file
> >   6. Shell execute the file which should create the "PDF" file.
> > 
> > Any ideas on how to do this a different way?
> > Thanks in advance,
> > AL
> > ps. currently getting data from Oracle 10g Database using OCI 
> and ASP/IIS.
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> .....
> 
> It's not clear what language/environment you are using. Presumably 
> it's not python.
> -- 
> Robin Becker
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