[reportlab-users] Advice on Formatting Report

[Andy Robinson]

>    Because this will be my first use of ReportLab, I don't know if this can

> be formatted with platypus into paragraphs and a story, requires something

> like reppy or pythonReports for grouping (neither seems to be supported; the

> former is almost 3 years old and the developers of the later do not respond

> to e-mail messages), or should be placed into a table with landscape page

> orientation.


Preppy is a templating system - it's job is to splurge out text.  We use 
it all the time to merge content into our commercial product, RML; and 
you could use it just like ASP, JSP or all the other templating systems 
to generate HTML.  It is absolutely stable and needs no new features 
which is why it doesn't change.  However, it will NOT help you to 
generate documents using the open source framework, because you need to 
construct lists of objects, not text.

If you're using Platypus, you want to loop over your results and 
generate sequences of paragraphs (or tables containing paragraphs in the 
cells, if you want to line things up neatly), and add them to the story.


PythonReports was only developed recently by one person; the developer 
asked me to look at it, but you may well only be the second person to 
try it out.

Regards,


Andy Robinson