[reportlab-users] Naive Question

[andy at reportlab.com]

The open source one is a library.  You create a Canvas object and 
execute graphics commands;
or, at a higher level, create a list of Paragraph, Table and Image 
objects;
then tell a document template (which is another complex class) to 
render it.
It's free and presumes you are happy to do everything in Python.

RML2PDF exposes the same library (with additions) as a strictt XML 
markup language.
This makes it just like web development - use ASP, JSP, XSLT, our own 
preppy or
whatever you want to generate markup, and let RML2PDF do the rest. It's 
expensive
(enterprise-priced, five figures) but much more productive. It's geared 
to companies wanting
to do substantial jobs which change a business process away from print 
or manual publishing, while
staying with a standard web development skill set..

The user guides for both are on the site...

Best Regards,

Andy Robinson
CEO/Chief Architect
ReportLab Europe Ltd.
tel +44 20 8544 8049

-----Original Message-----
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I was talking about the open source library. What is the difference 
between the two??

 tx.

 Mark

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 >>
 >> Hello,
 >>
  >> I am currently evaluating ReportLab. I am interested in generating 
pdf
 >> reports data stored in databases such as Access or mysql. How do
 >> you import
 >> data from these databases into the markup??
 >
 > You mention "markup". the open source library has no markup.
 > Are you talking about our commercial product, Report
 > Markup Language or the open source library?
 >
 > - Andy Robinson
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