[reportlab-users] reportlab-users Digest, Vol 39, Issue 1

[kevin]

Yes, my example was a bad one.  I realized immediately that my example 
was bad.  The avery site will let you generate a PDF with mailing labels 
(got this clue from some Ruby developers).  The resultant PDF 
automatically pops up the print dialog and the page scaling is already 
set to none.  This is what I'd love to do, as I can't expect the users to
continually remember to set this.  I'll see if I can hunt down where the 
pdf was generated.  I am attaching the pdf I generated from their site.

Thanks!

kevin at booksys.com

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>    1. Problem on Mac OSX (Y Tu)

>    2. Automatically set Page Scaling and Print? (kevin)

>    3. Re: Automatically set Page Scaling and Print? (Andy Robinson)

>    4. Re: Automatically set Page Scaling and Print? (Robin Becker)

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> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 08:45:04 -0500

> From: Y Tu <ytu888 at hotmail.com>

> Subject: [reportlab-users] Problem on Mac OSX

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> I installed PIL and ReportLab on Mac OS X. The test-run with command "from PIL import Image" followed by "import _imaging", and  "from reportlab.graphics import renderPDF" succeeded. However, when I run the test script (eportlab/test/test_pdfgen_general.py) coming with the package, I got the following error. How to fix the problem. Another question is how to run the script under the python prompt (>>>) after importing the scirpt by "import test_pdfgen_general.py". Thank yuo very much.

>

>

> nypivs-lee:/Applications/MacPython 2.5/reportlab/test lee$ python test_pdfgen_general.py

> E

> ======================================================================

> ERROR: Make a PDFgen document with most graphics features

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

> Traceback (most recent call last):

>   File "test_pdfgen_general.py", line 833, in test0

>     run(outputfile('test_pdfgen_general.pdf'))

>   File "test_pdfgen_general.py", line 796, in run

>     c = makeDocument(filename)

>   File "test_pdfgen_general.py", line 725, in makeDocument

>     c.drawImage(tgif, 4*inch, 9.25*inch, w, h, mask='auto')

>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/pdfgen/canvas.py", line 629, in drawImage

>     imgObj = pdfdoc.PDFImageXObject(name, image, mask=mask)

>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/pdfbase/pdfdoc.py", line 1840, in __init__

>     self.loadImageFromA85(src)

>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/pdfbase/pdfdoc.py", line 1846, in loadImageFromA85

>     imagedata = map(string.strip,pdfutils.makeA85Image(source,IMG=IMG))

>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/pdfbase/pdfutils.py", line 35, in makeA85Image

>     raw = img.getRGBData()

>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/lib/utils.py", line 612, in getRGBData

>     self._data = im.tostring()

>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 513, in tostring

>     self.load()

>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/ImageFile.py", line 180, in load

>     d = Image._getdecoder(self.mode, d, a, self.decoderconfig)

>   File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 375, in _getdecoder

>     raise IOError("decoder %s not available" % decoder_name)

> IOError: decoder jpeg not available

>

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

> Ran 1 test in 0.321s

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> FAILED (errors=1)

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> Message: 2

> Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:55:14 -0500

> From: kevin <kevin at booksys.com>

> Subject: [reportlab-users] Automatically set Page Scaling and Print?

> To: reportlab-users at reportlab.com

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> Hi all,

>

> We use reportlab to generate printing labels and barcode lists.  At the 

> moment we are fervently telling people to turn off "Page Scaling" (to 

> None) before printing their documents.

>

> Is there a way that this could be set up automatically while generating 

> the reportlab document?  I have seen PDF documents that do this.  For 

> instance,

> http://www.outback.com/pressroom/pdf/restaurantnews_march2005.pdf shows 

> that the Page Scaling can be turned off on the Print dialog.

>

> Any help is greatly appreciated.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Kevin at booksys.com

>

>

>

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> Message: 3

> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 16:00:16 +0100

> From: "Andy Robinson" <andy at reportlab.com>

> Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] Automatically set Page Scaling and

> 	Print?

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> On 01/10/2007, kevin <kevin at booksys.com> wrote:

>   

>> Hi all,

>>

>> We use reportlab to generate printing labels and barcode lists.  At the

>> moment we are fervently telling people to turn off "Page Scaling" (to

>> None) before printing their documents.

>>

>> Is there a way that this could be set up automatically while generating

>> the reportlab document?  I have seen PDF documents that do this.  For

>> instance,

>> http://www.outback.com/pressroom/pdf/restaurantnews_march2005.pdf shows

>> that the Page Scaling can be turned off on the Print dialog.

>>     

>

> That's really good news if Adobe has added a feature for this.  We'll

> look at this file and the PDF specification and try to figure out what

> option to add.  It's been a pain for everyone who ever tried to do

> labels in the last 6 years...

>

> Thanks,

>

> Andy

>

>   

>> Any help is greatly appreciated.

>>

>> Thanks,

>>

>> Kevin at booksys.com

>>

>>

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