[reportlab-users] non-pdf backend?

[Andy Robinson]

Tim Roberts wrote:
> Thomas Heller wrote:
> 
>> Is it possible to let reportlab generate something other than pdf?
>> Windows metafile, for example?
>>  
>>
> 
> It can also generate, with varying degrees of success, raw PostScript,
> SVG, GIF, PICT, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PPM.  Check out renderPS, renderSVG,
> and renderPM in the documentation.
> 

However, we can only do it for "drawings", which are small rectangles 
typically containing charts.  We cannot render an entire page of text 
and paragraphs to anything but PDF at present.  That's a goal for 
Version 3.0 but I will not guess when we'll be starting on that...

- Andy