[reportlab-users] better way?

[Robin Becker]

Tim Johnson wrote:
> I have pretty much the same issue. 
> See my post:
> "Parsing PDF files"
> 
> I am thus far pretty disappointed that there has been no response, and I
> hope that you get responses aside from my own.
> 
> I have been thinking of something similarly to what we do with HTML
> documents with forms. We parse those documents into python data
> structures, which can then be edited, enchanced, used as front ends for
> databases, etc.
> 
> To do something like this with reportlab and pdf would be wonderful.
> 
> You're on the right track Richard, I hope there are more responses to
> your inquiry.
> tj
> 
As has been mentioned many times on this list, ReportLab has a 
proprietary product (http://www.reportlab.com/pagecatcher_index.html) 
which captures existing PDF documents. I don't think it has specific 
support for dynamic forms and it certainly doesn't produce python code, 
but rather loadable python objects representing the document pages.
-- 
Robin Becker