[reportlab-users] How hard would this be?

[Michael Hipp]

How hard would it be to take the "high level" features of Reportlab (e.g. 
Flowables, Tables, canvas) and replace the low level drawing primitives with 
something else?

Specifically, I love the power, quality of output, and ease of use of 
Reportlab. But the fact that it produces PDFs is both it's best and worst 
feature (too too hard to print; too dependent on a fat pretentious app like 
Adobe Reader, necessity to save them as files rather than work in-memory, 
etc.). I'm thinking of replacing the "bottom layer" part that draws on a pdf 
with the print framework from wxPython* that draws on a print device context. 
wxPython has a powerful print framework, but compared to Reportlab it's a lot 
like using Assembly language.)

So how hard would it be to insert a different layer underneath Reportlab?

Thanks,
Michael

* I'd readily consider other options as well, wxPython just happens to be most 
familiar to me.