From gotsyk at gmail.com  Mon Jun  2 16:50:36 2008
From: gotsyk at gmail.com (Gotsyk)
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:50:36 +0300
Subject: [reportlab-users] platypus/tables.py: TypeError: 'NoneType' object
	is unsubscriptable
Message-ID: <1212439836.17848.12.camel@ubi>

Hi, 

I am using Platypus (RL Toolkit 2.0, SVN Rev. 3046) to compose a 
document that has a table in it. 

I've got such error:
File "?<work folder>/GeneratePDF.py", line 133, in build_doc
    self.doc.build(self.story, onFirstPage=self.footer_off,
onLaterPages=self.footer_on)
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/platypus/doctemplate.py",
line 911, in build
    BaseDocTemplate.build(self,flowables, canvasmaker=canvasmaker)
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/platypus/doctemplate.py",
line 740, in build
    self.handle_flowable(flowables)
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/platypus/doctemplate.py",
line 657, in handle_flowable
    if frame.add(S[0], self.canv, trySplit=0):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/platypus/frames.py",
line 141, in _add
    w, h = flowable.wrap(aW, h)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/platypus/tables.py",
line 978, in wrap
    self._calc(availWidth, availHeight)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/platypus/tables.py",
line 523, in _calc
    self._calc_height(availHeight,availWidth,W=W)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/reportlab/platypus/tables.py",
line 479, in _calc_height
    w = max(colpositions[t[2]+1]-colpositions[t[0]],w)
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable

I've found, that in this case, in the line w =
max(colpositions[t[2]+1]-colpositions[t[0]],w) of the tables.py t which
was set t = spanRanges[ji] is None. I've found simple workaround to put
this line into try/except:pass and got correct pdf as result.

Can you point me if I am incorrect with my data?

I've found similar letter about year ago in this list but there is no
result there. If that case was resolved, could you point me to it?

Thank you very much.





From arkadi at smartbit.be  Tue Jun  3 10:24:57 2008
From: arkadi at smartbit.be (Arkadi Colson)
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:24:57 +0200
Subject: [reportlab-users] valign with large fonts
Message-ID: <48455439.9070209@smartbit.be>

Hi all,


I'm having trouble with cells in a table where large fonts are used. The 
vertical alignment is set to center but the content is still at the 
bottom of the cell. Can I solve this without using cell heights because 
the content together with the fonts comes from a parsed XML file. So the 
font size is variable.


Thanks in advance,
    Arkadi

From robin at reportlab.com  Tue Jun  3 16:45:51 2008
From: robin at reportlab.com (Robin Becker)
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:45:51 +0100
Subject: [reportlab-users] valign with large fonts
In-Reply-To: <48455439.9070209@smartbit.be>
References: <48455439.9070209@smartbit.be>
Message-ID: <4845AD7F.9010409@jessikat.plus.net>

Arkadi Colson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I'm having trouble with cells in a table where large fonts are used. The 
> vertical alignment is set to center but the content is still at the 
> bottom of the cell. Can I solve this without using cell heights because 
> the content together with the fonts comes from a parsed XML file. So the 
> font size is variable.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
>    Arkadi
>nfo/reportlab-users
> 

I have a feeling that valign should be middle, but the vertical 
alignment has always caused trouble so it might be busted.
-- 
Robin Becker

From arkadi at smartbit.be  Wed Jun  4 05:04:36 2008
From: arkadi at smartbit.be (Arkadi Colson)
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:04:36 +0200
Subject: [reportlab-users] valign with large fonts
In-Reply-To: <4845AD7F.9010409@jessikat.plus.net>
References: <48455439.9070209@smartbit.be> <4845AD7F.9010409@jessikat.plus.net>
Message-ID: <48465AA4.1070406@smartbit.be>

So the only option will be detecting the font hight some way and using 
bottom padding to enlarge the cell?

regards,
    Arkadi

Robin Becker wrote:
> Arkadi Colson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> I'm having trouble with cells in a table where large fonts are used. 
>> The vertical alignment is set to center but the content is still at 
>> the bottom of the cell. Can I solve this without using cell heights 
>> because the content together with the fonts comes from a parsed XML 
>> file. So the font size is variable.
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>    Arkadi
>> nfo/reportlab-users
>>
>
> I have a feeling that valign should be middle, but the vertical 
> alignment has always caused trouble so it might be busted.

From robin at reportlab.com  Wed Jun  4 05:28:27 2008
From: robin at reportlab.com (Robin Becker)
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:28:27 +0100
Subject: [reportlab-users] valign with large fonts
In-Reply-To: <48465AA4.1070406@smartbit.be>
References: <48455439.9070209@smartbit.be> <4845AD7F.9010409@jessikat.plus.net>
	<48465AA4.1070406@smartbit.be>
Message-ID: <4846603B.8090401@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk>

Arkadi Colson wrote:
> So the only option will be detecting the font hight some way and using 
> bottom padding to enlarge the cell?
> 
.......

Arkadi,
the code that does the alignment for simple cells looks like this
just = cellstyle.alignment
valign = cellstyle.valign
........
vals = string.split(str(cellval), "\n")
n = len(vals)
leading = cellstyle.leading
fontsize = cellstyle.fontsize
if valign=='BOTTOM':
	y = rowpos + cellstyle.bottomPadding+n*leading-fontsize
elif valign=='TOP':
	y = rowpos + rowheight - cellstyle.topPadding - fontsize
elif valign=='MIDDLE':
	#tim roberts pointed out missing fontsize correction 2004-10-04
	y = rowpos + (cellstyle.bottomPadding + 
rowheight-cellstyle.topPadding+n*leading)/2.0 - fontsize
else:
	raise......

so the valign style attribute should be doing something different. Can you send 
an example piece of text together with the style that's supposed to be being 
used eg font, font size leading etc etc. Then I'll try and have a look to see 
what's going on.

>>>
........nt size is variable.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>    Arkadi
>>> nfo/reportlab-users
>>>
>>
>> I have a feeling that valign should be middle, but the vertical 
>> alignment has always caused trouble so it might be busted.
> 


-- 
Robin Becker

From arkadi at smartbit.be  Wed Jun  4 07:09:44 2008
From: arkadi at smartbit.be (Arkadi Colson)
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:09:44 +0200
Subject: [reportlab-users] valign with large fonts
In-Reply-To: <4846603B.8090401@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk>
References: <48455439.9070209@smartbit.be> <4845AD7F.9010409@jessikat.plus.net>
	<48465AA4.1070406@smartbit.be>
	<4846603B.8090401@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk>
Message-ID: <484677F8.5090200@smartbit.be>

Ah ok I see. I use fontsize in the Paragraph style so the "- fontsize" = 
"- 0". I will put the fontsize from Paragraph style to Cell style.

Thanks for the info!
    Arkadi

Robin Becker wrote:
> Arkadi Colson wrote:
>> So the only option will be detecting the font hight some way and 
>> using bottom padding to enlarge the cell?
>>
> .......
>
> Arkadi,
> the code that does the alignment for simple cells looks like this
> just = cellstyle.alignment
> valign = cellstyle.valign
> ........
> vals = string.split(str(cellval), "\n")
> n = len(vals)
> leading = cellstyle.leading
> fontsize = cellstyle.fontsize
> if valign=='BOTTOM':
>     y = rowpos + cellstyle.bottomPadding+n*leading-fontsize
> elif valign=='TOP':
>     y = rowpos + rowheight - cellstyle.topPadding - fontsize
> elif valign=='MIDDLE':
>     #tim roberts pointed out missing fontsize correction 2004-10-04
>     y = rowpos + (cellstyle.bottomPadding + 
> rowheight-cellstyle.topPadding+n*leading)/2.0 - fontsize
> else:
>     raise......
>
> so the valign style attribute should be doing something different. Can 
> you send an example piece of text together with the style that's 
> supposed to be being used eg font, font size leading etc etc. Then 
> I'll try and have a look to see what's going on.
>
>>>>
> ........nt size is variable.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>    Arkadi
>>>> nfo/reportlab-users
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have a feeling that valign should be middle, but the vertical 
>>> alignment has always caused trouble so it might be busted.
>>
>
>

From obi_radusorin at yahoo.com  Wed Jun  4 08:00:22 2008
From: obi_radusorin at yahoo.com (circo radu)
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 05:00:22 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [reportlab-users] Fixed Height for a table
Message-ID: <387362.6765.qm@web33608.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

&nbsp;&nbsp; 
&nbsp;&nbsp; Hy . Hope what i describe below makes sense, and u will understand my problem. 
&nbsp;&nbsp; I have to generate a pdf containing a table, which will be generated dynamically. I have the table header fixed (the first 2 rows) and the last row. The rows between will be generated using some values. I dont know how many rows will I have in there.&nbsp; The main fact is that i need to keep the overall Height of the table fixed ( the number of rows will not be that high so the added height value of all the rows to go beyond the tables height). 
&nbsp; If i have only 1 or 2 rows&nbsp; the table is too short. Is there a way to specify the overall height of the table? or a way to calculate the height of that last row that will fill the table bringing him to the desired height? 



      
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From alet at librelogiciel.com  Wed Jun  4 10:13:27 2008
From: alet at librelogiciel.com (Jerome Alet)
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 16:13:27 +0200
Subject: [reportlab-users] [ANNOUNCE] New home and features for my PDF
	Punishment Generator
In-Reply-To: <DEB25B5B-218E-4963-831E-0D025A990B02@darwin.in-berlin.de>
References: <20080521083819.GA21607@mail.librelogiciel.com>
	<5beee6a0805260039mfc8a247t6ea6fe5e21eb747f@mail.gmail.com>
	<20080526074619.GA16704@mail.librelogiciel.com>
	<DEB25B5B-218E-4963-831E-0D025A990B02@darwin.in-berlin.de>
Message-ID: <20080604141327.GA9630@mail.librelogiciel.com>

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:21:15AM +0200, Dinu Gherman wrote:
> Jerome Alet:
> 
> >I'll be glad to add more paper formats, the existing one is used
> >in France, but I don't know what is used in other countries, so
> >if people can give me precise dimensions, colors etc... about the
> >paper format most used in your own country, please do (privately)
> 
> when I saw your funny sample again I immediately wondered what
> standard there is in France for the punch wholes in different
> paper formats (if there is any at all)?
> 

I didn't find anything specific about Franch unfortunately, believe 
me I searched for this, and I've not yet verified it the holes' 
positions match ISO 838 or 888 or not (sorry) 

The punishment's code was written after taking measures with a ruler 
on a real paper sheet. The lines format on such sheets seem to have 
been "invented" by http://www.cahiers-oxford.com/LaMarque.asp but 
nowhere was I able to find any specification. It is really the most 
used format in French schools, although some related formats have 
the lines spaced or colored differently. The other most used format 
in France as far as page design is concerned, is with 5mm X 5mm 
squares, usually with blue/violet lines in a single width, compared
to the two widths / two_or_three colors used in the punishment generator.

bye, and sorry for the late answer.

Jerome 

From gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de  Sat Jun  7 13:27:10 2008
From: gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de (Dinu Gherman)
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 19:27:10 +0200
Subject: [reportlab-users] Packaging
In-Reply-To: <956003ae0805300852y51d99ab5h6de6bbb84f023268@mail.gmail.com>
References: <87bq2u2f4t.fsf@enceladus.ygingras.net>
	<956003ae0805300852y51d99ab5h6de6bbb84f023268@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <40724883-A187-4451-8307-89F3A9C9994E@darwin.in-berlin.de>

Andy Robinson:

> We'll try to tackle this in our next release, and ensure it works
> cleanly with various distutils options.
>
> I hoped we'd do a release in May but we have fallen behind (as Dinu  
> will
> doubtless point out), partly as we're working on a new web site; we  
> did at
> least go through and identifying the key changes which need  
> documenting.
> It should hopefully come out in June/July.


See also this about the importance of releases:

   http://www.technobabble.dk/2008/jun/07/django-importance-releases

Regards,

Dinu


From andy at reportlab.com  Sat Jun  7 16:00:03 2008
From: andy at reportlab.com (Andy Robinson)
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 21:00:03 +0100
Subject: [reportlab-users] Packaging
In-Reply-To: <40724883-A187-4451-8307-89F3A9C9994E@darwin.in-berlin.de>
References: <87bq2u2f4t.fsf@enceladus.ygingras.net>
	<956003ae0805300852y51d99ab5h6de6bbb84f023268@mail.gmail.com>
	<40724883-A187-4451-8307-89F3A9C9994E@darwin.in-berlin.de>
Message-ID: <956003ae0806071300n3d807b42wff0ad99995d06a7@mail.gmail.com>

2008/6/7 Dinu Gherman <gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de>:
> See also this about the importance of releases:
>
>  http://www.technobabble.dk/2008/jun/07/django-importance-releases
>
When I read it earlier today, I thought "Dinu will be sending it to the list..."

We are working towards the release but our company has its biggest
ever order book,  and we tend only to find a few hours each week. Django
has the same issue.

- Andy

From tlesher at gmail.com  Tue Jun 10 14:03:40 2008
From: tlesher at gmail.com (Tim Lesher)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:03:40 -0400
Subject: [reportlab-users] Install fails under virtualenv
Message-ID: <9613db600806101103x5e3e64f9if80c0c0808e53de9@mail.gmail.com>

I'm trying to install ReportLab toolkit 2.1 in a virtualenv environment
(i.e., without root privileges), but installation is failing.

The issue seems to be the manual path munging that the setup.py script does
in package_home().  It always picks up the system-wide lib installation,
rather than the local one.

Is there any reason not to use distutils' package_data argument to setup()
instead?

Just removing "data_files=DATA_FILES.items()" and replacing it with
"package_data={'reportlab': _FILES}" appears to do the right thing in my
testing.

Thanks.
-- 
Tim Lesher <tlesher at gmail.com>
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From robin at reportlab.com  Tue Jun 10 17:52:09 2008
From: robin at reportlab.com (Robin Becker)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:52:09 +0100
Subject: [reportlab-users] Install fails under virtualenv
In-Reply-To: <9613db600806101103x5e3e64f9if80c0c0808e53de9@mail.gmail.com>
References: <9613db600806101103x5e3e64f9if80c0c0808e53de9@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <484EF789.2020202@jessikat.plus.net>

Tim Lesher wrote:
> I'm trying to install ReportLab toolkit 2.1 in a virtualenv environment
> (i.e., without root privileges), but installation is failing.
> 
> The issue seems to be the manual path munging that the setup.py script does
> in package_home().  It always picks up the system-wide lib installation,
> rather than the local one.
> 
> Is there any reason not to use distutils' package_data argument to setup()
> instead?
> 
> Just removing "data_files=DATA_FILES.items()" and replacing it with
> "package_data={'reportlab': _FILES}" appears to do the right thing in my
> testing.
.......

unfortunately I think a lot of the setup.py code has been contributed by 
more than one person. I think the DATA_FILES setup is attempting to 
ensure that non-python code/data gets placed at the right place. It's 
using distutils' view of where home should be, not what distutils will 
really use. I suppose that code is now bad for your usage. Does anyone 
know the semantic difference between date_files and package_data?
-- 
Robin Becker

From tlesher at gmail.com  Tue Jun 10 21:31:59 2008
From: tlesher at gmail.com (Tim Lesher)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:31:59 -0400
Subject: [reportlab-users] Install fails under virtualenv
In-Reply-To: <484EF789.2020202@jessikat.plus.net>
References: <9613db600806101103x5e3e64f9if80c0c0808e53de9@mail.gmail.com>
	<484EF789.2020202@jessikat.plus.net>
Message-ID: <9613db600806101831n5a889b0ds1ee25a7cafe84935@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:

> unfortunately I think a lot of the setup.py code has been contributed by
> more than one person. I think the DATA_FILES setup is attempting to ensure
> that non-python code/data gets placed at the right place. It's using
> distutils' view of where home should be, not what distutils will really use.
> I suppose that code is now bad for your usage. Does anyone know the semantic
> difference between date_files and package_data?


The short answer is "data_files has been around for a long time;
package_data was added in 2.4 to address just this issue. :-)"

The data_files directive takes a dict mapping destination directories
(relative to sys.prefix) to lists of files to put there. (
http://docs.python.org/dist/node13.html)

The package_data directive takes a dict mapping package names to lists of
files to put into wherever that package is being installed (essentially
doing what reportlabs' setup.py is trying to do by hand in package_home). (
http://docs.python.org/dist/node12.html)

I don't know the history of the reportlabs code, but I suspect that the code
in setup.py predates the existence of distutils' package_data feature.  All
of the files in the data_files are being, in fact, copied into the
reportlabs package tree.

The only refinement I can see is that for the files being copied into
reportlabs/tools/xxxx, they could be added to mappings for the appropriate
subpackage rather than reportlabs itself, but in reality it amounts to the
same place.

-- 
Tim Lesher <tlesher at gmail.com>
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From andy at openindex.de  Sun Jun 15 08:17:53 2008
From: andy at openindex.de (Andreas Rudolph)
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:17:53 +0200
Subject: [reportlab-users] newbie question about PDF-generation from template
Message-ID: <48550871.2040202@openindex.de>

Hello all,

at first I'd like to thank the developers for their great work. 
ReportLab looks really nice, but I'm having some problems with the 
provided documentation / examples.

The following things I try to realize with ReportLab:

- I already have an existing PDF-file, that should be used as template.
- I want to open this PDF-template and write some additional content on it.
- Finally the modifiied document should be saved under a new filename, 
or maybe send directly as HTTP-response.

My questions about this:

- Can this be realized with ReportLab?
- If yes, can you give me a hint how to do this?

I tried a bit with 'BaseDocTemplate' and 'SimpleDocTemplate', but 
without success so far.


Thanks for your attention,



greetz




Andreas Rudolph


-- 
technik at openindex.de

http://www.openindex.de
http://immo.openindex.de

From alet at librelogiciel.com  Sun Jun 15 08:32:20 2008
From: alet at librelogiciel.com (Jerome Alet)
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:32:20 +0200
Subject: [reportlab-users] newbie question about PDF-generation from
	template
In-Reply-To: <48550871.2040202@openindex.de>
References: <48550871.2040202@openindex.de>
Message-ID: <20080615123220.GA9955@mail.librelogiciel.com>

Hi,

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 02:17:53PM +0200, Andreas Rudolph wrote:
> 
> at first I'd like to thank the developers for their great work. 
> ReportLab looks really nice, but I'm having some problems with the 
> provided documentation / examples.
> 
> The following things I try to realize with ReportLab:
> 
> - I already have an existing PDF-file, that should be used as template.
> - I want to open this PDF-template and write some additional content on it.
> - Finally the modifiied document should be saved under a new filename, 
> or maybe send directly as HTTP-response.
> 
> My questions about this:
> 
> - Can this be realized with ReportLab?
> - If yes, can you give me a hint how to do this?
> 
> I tried a bit with 'BaseDocTemplate' and 'SimpleDocTemplate', but 
> without success so far.

Modifying an existing PDF document is not possible with ReportLab 
out of the box. You need their commercial offering to do this. 

bye

Jerome Alet

From andy at openindex.de  Sun Jun 15 08:42:38 2008
From: andy at openindex.de (Andreas Rudolph)
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:42:38 +0200
Subject: [reportlab-users] newbie question about PDF-generation
	from	template
In-Reply-To: <20080615123220.GA9955@mail.librelogiciel.com>
References: <48550871.2040202@openindex.de>
	<20080615123220.GA9955@mail.librelogiciel.com>
Message-ID: <48550E3E.4040501@openindex.de>

Hi,

> Modifying an existing PDF document is not possible with ReportLab out of the box. You need their commercial offering to do this. 

thanks for your quick reply. So I'll need to find a better solution. You 
know an alternative PDF-implementation?

The only Open-Source solution I know is 'iText'. This needs to be 
written in Java, but I don't really want to install a JVM on my 
customers server.



greetz,



Andreas Rudolph


-- 
technik at openindex.de

http://www.openindex.de
http://immo.openindex.de

From gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de  Sun Jun 15 09:33:42 2008
From: gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de (Dinu Gherman)
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:33:42 +0200
Subject: [reportlab-users] newbie question about PDF-generation
	from	template
In-Reply-To: <48550E3E.4040501@openindex.de>
References: <48550871.2040202@openindex.de>
	<20080615123220.GA9955@mail.librelogiciel.com>
	<48550E3E.4040501@openindex.de>
Message-ID: <5B0EFB12-8505-485F-9343-E7F3055DF63B@darwin.in-berlin.de>

Andreas Rudolph:

>> Modifying an existing PDF document is not possible with ReportLab  
>> out of the box. You need their commercial offering to do this.
>
> thanks for your quick reply. So I'll need to find a better solution.  
> You know an alternative PDF-implementation?

I'm writing something that will do what you want. You can see
something quite similar posted in the following message here
a while ago (in the meantime I had to replace the embedded
PDF pages, because Andy didn't like them to be used for this
purpose):

   http://two.pairlist.net/pipermail/reportlab-users/2008-May/ 
006983.html

You can either wait for the thing to be released and/or help
its development...

Regards,

Dinu



From andy at openindex.de  Mon Jun 16 04:37:02 2008
From: andy at openindex.de (Andreas Rudolph)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:37:02 +0200
Subject: [reportlab-users] newbie question about PDF-generation from
	template
In-Reply-To: <5B0EFB12-8505-485F-9343-E7F3055DF63B@darwin.in-berlin.de>
References: <48550871.2040202@openindex.de>	<20080615123220.GA9955@mail.librelogiciel.com>	<48550E3E.4040501@openindex.de>
	<5B0EFB12-8505-485F-9343-E7F3055DF63B@darwin.in-berlin.de>
Message-ID: <4856262E.70603@openindex.de>

Hi Dinu,

> I'm writing something that will do what you want. You can see
> something quite similar posted in the following message here
> a while ago (in the meantime I had to replace the embedded
> PDF pages, because Andy didn't like them to be used for this
> purpose):

this sounds quite interisting.


> http://two.pairlist.net/pipermail/reportlab-users/2008-May/006983.html

At the moment I don't see a connection between your posting and my 
problem. Maybe my english is just too bad. ;)


> You can either wait for the thing to be released and/or help
> its development...

What kind of help do you need?
What's the actual stage of your project?
Can I take a look at the source code somewhere, maybe Sourceforge?
Is the project connected to ReportLab, or something independent?



greetz,




Andreas Rudolph


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http://www.openindex.de
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From wthie at thiengineering.ch  Mon Jun 16 04:55:52 2008
From: wthie at thiengineering.ch (Werner Thie)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:55:52 +0200
Subject: [reportlab-users] newbie question about PDF-generation from
	template
In-Reply-To: <48550871.2040202@openindex.de>
References: <48550871.2040202@openindex.de>
Message-ID: <48562A98.9090605@thiengineering.ch>

Hi Andreas

Having had similar requierements I went with z3c.rml, which tries to 
implement RML (the commercial one) with a FOSS approach and expands it 
even further by throwing it ZOPE templating.

For examples see

You can read all about ``z3c.rml`` and see many examples on how to use 
it, see the "RML Reference":

http://svn.zope.org/z3c.rml/trunk/src/z3c/rml/rml-reference.pdf?view=auto

It does all what you asked for and probably even more.

HTH, Werner Thie

Andreas Rudolph wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> at first I'd like to thank the developers for their great work. 
> ReportLab looks really nice, but I'm having some problems with the 
> provided documentation / examples.
> 
> The following things I try to realize with ReportLab:
> 
> - I already have an existing PDF-file, that should be used as template.
> - I want to open this PDF-template and write some additional content on it.
> - Finally the modifiied document should be saved under a new filename, 
> or maybe send directly as HTTP-response.
> 
> My questions about this:
> 
> - Can this be realized with ReportLab?
> - If yes, can you give me a hint how to do this?
> 
> I tried a bit with 'BaseDocTemplate' and 'SimpleDocTemplate', but 
> without success so far.
> 
> 
> Thanks for your attention,
> 
> 
> 
> greetz
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Andreas Rudolph
> 
> 

From andy at openindex.de  Mon Jun 16 06:50:43 2008
From: andy at openindex.de (Andreas Rudolph)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:50:43 +0200
Subject: [reportlab-users] newbie question about PDF-generation
	from	template
In-Reply-To: <48562A98.9090605@thiengineering.ch>
References: <48550871.2040202@openindex.de>
	<48562A98.9090605@thiengineering.ch>
Message-ID: <48564583.70401@openindex.de>

Hi Werner,

> You can read all about ``z3c.rml`` and see many examples on how to use 
> it, see the "RML Reference":
> 
> http://svn.zope.org/z3c.rml/trunk/src/z3c/rml/rml-reference.pdf?view=auto
> 
> It does all what you asked for and probably even more.

thanks for your advice. Do I need an installation of Zope to use this 
library or can it be used standalone?

I never used RML, but it looks pretty nice after a first quick look.

One other question in this context: Can I manipulate existing 
AcroForm-textfields with this library / RML?


Greetz,



Andreas Rudolph


-- 
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http://www.openindex.de
http://immo.openindex.de

From gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de  Mon Jun 16 08:50:32 2008
From: gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de (Dinu Gherman)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:50:32 +0200
Subject: [reportlab-users] newbie question about PDF-generation from
	template
In-Reply-To: <4856262E.70603@openindex.de>
References: <48550871.2040202@openindex.de>	<20080615123220.GA9955@mail.librelogiciel.com>	<48550E3E.4040501@openindex.de>
	<5B0EFB12-8505-485F-9343-E7F3055DF63B@darwin.in-berlin.de>
	<4856262E.70603@openindex.de>
Message-ID: <0E3629F5-84B0-4FE3-89C4-1373AA8D9807@darwin.in-berlin.de>

Andreas Rudolph:

>> http://two.pairlist.net/pipermail/reportlab-users/2008-May/ 
>> 006983.html
>
> At the moment I don't see a connection between your posting and my  
> problem. Maybe my english is just too bad. ;)

It rather depends on your experience with ReportLab so far.
What you see in the sample is a document containing single
PDF pages extracted from an external document, implemented
with a PDF extraction "flowable". If you have that you can
also put a "PDF template", as you call it, on a whole page
as a "background".

>> You can either wait for the thing to be released and/or help
>> its development...
>
> What kind of help do you need?
> What's the actual stage of your project?
> Can I take a look at the source code somewhere, maybe Sourceforge?
> Is the project connected to ReportLab, or something independent?

It's not published yet, since it needs more testing and some
finetuning, but I'm looking for opportunities to push it fur-
ther. If you have any ideas for doing so feel free to email
me offlist.

Regards,

Dinu

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From andy at reportlab.com  Mon Jun 16 09:56:04 2008
From: andy at reportlab.com (Andy Robinson)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:56:04 +0100
Subject: [reportlab-users] newbie question about PDF-generation from
	template
In-Reply-To: <0E3629F5-84B0-4FE3-89C4-1373AA8D9807@darwin.in-berlin.de>
References: <48550871.2040202@openindex.de>
	<20080615123220.GA9955@mail.librelogiciel.com>
	<48550E3E.4040501@openindex.de>
	<5B0EFB12-8505-485F-9343-E7F3055DF63B@darwin.in-berlin.de>
	<4856262E.70603@openindex.de>
	<0E3629F5-84B0-4FE3-89C4-1373AA8D9807@darwin.in-berlin.de>
Message-ID: <956003ae0806160656y7c20afcfsf28f65972eabf7b6@mail.gmail.com>

2008/6/16 Dinu Gherman <gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de>:
> It's not published yet, since it needs more testing and some
> finetuning, but I'm looking for opportunities to push it fur-
> ther.

Hey Dinu, don't you believe in "release early, release often?"  ;-)

Andy

From wthie at thiengineering.ch  Tue Jun 17 06:06:56 2008
From: wthie at thiengineering.ch (Werner Thie)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:06:56 +0200
Subject: [reportlab-users] newbie question about
	PDF-generation	from	template
In-Reply-To: <48564583.70401@openindex.de>
References: <48550871.2040202@openindex.de>	<48562A98.9090605@thiengineering.ch>
	<48564583.70401@openindex.de>
Message-ID: <48578CC0.3080506@thiengineering.ch>

Hi Andreas

Andreas Rudolph wrote:
...snip

> thanks for your advice. Do I need an installation of Zope to use this 
> library or can it be used standalone?

No, the z3c extensions run fine w/o a full zope. What's usually needed 
is the ZopeInterface package, which does a lot in helping to write 
cleaner code anyway. See http://www.zope.org/Products/ZopeInterface

> I never used RML, but it looks pretty nice after a first quick look.
> 
> One other question in this context: Can I manipulate existing 
> AcroForm-textfields with this library / RML?

Never used textfields, but the whole setup is really flexible and if 
it's not supported out of the box, it could probably be done by 
yourself. If you're only interested in manipulating existing PDFs then a 
sneakpeek at the code in the RML package would go a long way IMHO.

Regards, Werner

From time_song at hotmail.com  Tue Jun 17 23:23:48 2008
From: time_song at hotmail.com (=?gb2312?B?1cXApdXFwKX=?=)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:23:48 +0000
Subject: [reportlab-users] A jerkwater bug in
	'reportlab/platypus/paragraph.py'
Message-ID: <BAY114-W20E95EC5D9C94E4C235F8D90AB0@phx.gbl>

Hello everybody
 
Thanks for this greateful project. Today i find a jerkwater bug in paragraph.py.
 
Line 412-413:
 
    if type(link) is unicode:        link = unicode.encode('utf8')
 
I think it should like below, but i'm incertitude:
 
    if type(link) is str:        link = link.encode('utf8')
 
Thanks and best regards,
Timesong
_________________________________________________________________
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http://im.live.cn/emoticons/?ID=18
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From andy at reportlab.com  Wed Jun 18 02:24:24 2008
From: andy at reportlab.com (Andy Robinson)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:24:24 +0100
Subject: [reportlab-users] A jerkwater bug in
	'reportlab/platypus/paragraph.py'
In-Reply-To: <BAY114-W20E95EC5D9C94E4C235F8D90AB0@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY114-W20E95EC5D9C94E4C235F8D90AB0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <956003ae0806172324y51da390atd611f4bacfde19e@mail.gmail.com>

At this point we wanted to ensure link became a UTF8 string, so it
looks correct to me.  What symptoms do you get?  Can you give us some
failing code?

- Andy

On 18/06/2008, ???? <time_song at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody
>
> Thanks for this greateful project. Today i find a jerkwater bug in
> paragraph.py.
>
> Line 412-413:
>
>     if type(link) is unicode:        link = unicode.encode('utf8')
>
> I think it should like below, but i'm incertitude:
>
>     if type(link) is str:        link = link.encode('utf8')
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> Timesong
> _________________________________________________________________
> ?????????????MSN????TA?????
> http://im.live.cn/emoticons/?ID=18


-- 
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CEO/Chief Architect
ReportLab Europe Ltd.
165 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London SW19 1NE, UK
Tel +44-20-8544-8049

From robin at reportlab.com  Wed Jun 18 08:20:41 2008
From: robin at reportlab.com (Robin Becker)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:20:41 +0100
Subject: [reportlab-users] A jerkwater bug
	in	'reportlab/platypus/paragraph.py'
In-Reply-To: <BAY114-W20E95EC5D9C94E4C235F8D90AB0@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY114-W20E95EC5D9C94E4C235F8D90AB0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <4858FD99.2020402@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk>

???? wrote:
> Hello everybody
>  
> Thanks for this greateful project. Today i find a jerkwater bug in paragraph.py.
>  
> Line 412-413:
>  
>     if type(link) is unicode:        link = unicode.encode('utf8')
>  
> I think it should like below, but i'm incertitude:
>  
>     if type(link) is str:        link = link.encode('utf8')
>  
> Thanks and best regards,
> Timesong



I think this is a bug and it probably should read

if isinstance(link,unicode): link = link.encode('utf8')

later on(in more uncodely friendly times) it might get turned around and then be

if isinstance(link,str): link = link.decode('utf8')


-- 
Robin Becker

From andy at reportlab.com  Wed Jun 18 09:53:04 2008
From: andy at reportlab.com (Andy Robinson)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:53:04 +0100
Subject: [reportlab-users] A jerkwater bug in
	'reportlab/platypus/paragraph.py'
In-Reply-To: <4858FD99.2020402@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk>
References: <BAY114-W20E95EC5D9C94E4C235F8D90AB0@phx.gbl>
	<4858FD99.2020402@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk>
Message-ID: <956003ae0806180653l45306dadk16f4f346c4c3f77@mail.gmail.com>

2008/6/18 Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com>:
> if isinstance(link,unicode): link = link.encode('utf8')

You're right of course, I was asleep and read it incorrectly this
morning.  We want to make sure link becomes a utf8 string.

- Andy

From gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de  Wed Jun 18 10:33:39 2008
From: gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de (Dinu Gherman)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:33:39 +0200
Subject: [reportlab-users] newbie question about PDF-generation from
	template
In-Reply-To: <956003ae0806160656y7c20afcfsf28f65972eabf7b6@mail.gmail.com>
References: <48550871.2040202@openindex.de>
	<20080615123220.GA9955@mail.librelogiciel.com>
	<48550E3E.4040501@openindex.de>
	<5B0EFB12-8505-485F-9343-E7F3055DF63B@darwin.in-berlin.de>
	<4856262E.70603@openindex.de>
	<0E3629F5-84B0-4FE3-89C4-1373AA8D9807@darwin.in-berlin.de>
	<956003ae0806160656y7c20afcfsf28f65972eabf7b6@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D426DFB-6E2F-4E40-A023-6883D5C7013E@darwin.in-berlin.de>

Andy Robinson:

> Hey Dinu, don't you believe in "release early, release often?"  ;-)


LOFL... that's so Monty! :-)

The short answer is: yes, after the *first* release! The long
answer is: You're mixing different aspects of what it means
to "release" something. The first is to bring something into
existance, while the second is to update something already
existing. But I'm sure, YMWV.

Well ok, I'll stop nagging and leave it to others to tell you
about getting errors with specific TrueType fonts at ISPs,
who don't like installing SVN-snapshots for security reasons,
while the latest Debian package of RL is one year old, etc.
etc.

And BTW, Django is no longer an idol to follow, since they
are now committed to 1.0 for september this year! ;-)

Best wishes,

Dinu


From stephen at lisclare.com  Fri Jun 20 14:36:31 2008
From: stephen at lisclare.com (Stephen Hall)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:36:31 +0100
Subject: [reportlab-users] <pto> tags within TinyErp
Message-ID: <7A631DBFC07DCD4FAB3E530E06DC5B4E2C696B@DC1.lisclare.local>

Hi,

 

Does anyone know if <pto> tags should work within TinyErp reports? I am
getting blank output for anything contained within them.

 

Regards,

Stephen.  

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From robin at reportlab.com  Sat Jun 21 05:12:13 2008
From: robin at reportlab.com (Robin Becker)
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:12:13 +0100
Subject: [reportlab-users] <pto> tags within TinyErp
In-Reply-To: <7A631DBFC07DCD4FAB3E530E06DC5B4E2C696B@DC1.lisclare.local>
References: <7A631DBFC07DCD4FAB3E530E06DC5B4E2C696B@DC1.lisclare.local>
Message-ID: <485CC5ED.7020908@jessikat.plus.net>

Stephen Hall wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> Does anyone know if <pto> tags should work within TinyErp reports? I am
> getting blank output for anything contained within them.
> 
>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stephen.  
Unfortunately I have no idea what TinyErp is except that there's a 
website which directs you to openerp where large amounts of links and 
stuff awaits. How does it relate to reportlab?

-- 
Robin Becker

From andy at reportlab.com  Sat Jun 21 09:08:42 2008
From: andy at reportlab.com (Andy Robinson)
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:08:42 +0100
Subject: [reportlab-users] <pto> tags within TinyErp
In-Reply-To: <485CC5ED.7020908@jessikat.plus.net>
References: <7A631DBFC07DCD4FAB3E530E06DC5B4E2C696B@DC1.lisclare.local>
	<485CC5ED.7020908@jessikat.plus.net>
Message-ID: <956003ae0806210608h4c43df12p7f632a6904fd85e6@mail.gmail.com>

2008/6/21 Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com>:
> Stephen Hall wrote:
>> Does anyone know if <pto> tags should work within TinyErp reports? I am
>> getting blank output for anything contained within them.
> Unfortunately I have no idea what TinyErp is except that there's a website
> which directs you to openerp where large amounts of links and stuff awaits.
> How does it relate to reportlab?

It uses TinyRML, which was an RML clone written by Fabian PInckaers
several years ago.  It uses our engine but not our parser, and since
PTO was implemented years later by ourselves, I am pretty sure it does
not support this tag.

RML is trademarked by ReportLab and the only implementation we can
support properly is our own (commercial) one.

Best Regards,

Andy Robinson
ReportLab

From stephen at lisclare.com  Sun Jun 22 08:04:00 2008
From: stephen at lisclare.com (Stephen Hall)
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:04:00 +0100
Subject: [reportlab-users] <pto> tags within TinyErp
In-Reply-To: <mailman.15.1214064030.44576.reportlab-users@reportlab.com>
References: <mailman.15.1214064030.44576.reportlab-users@reportlab.com>
Message-ID: <7A631DBFC07DCD4FAB3E530E06DC5B4E2C696D@DC1.lisclare.local>

Hi Andy,

Many thanks for clearing up that confusion on my part. ReportLab appears
to be a very sophisticated and well supported product. I am most
disappointed it is not fully supported within OpenErp.

Kind regards,
Stephen.

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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:36:31 +0100
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Hi,

 

Does anyone know if <pto> tags should work within TinyErp reports? I am
getting blank output for anything contained within them.

 

Regards,

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Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:12:13 +0100
From: Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com>
Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] <pto> tags within TinyErp
To: Support list for users of Reportlab software
	<reportlab-users at reportlab.com>
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Stephen Hall wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> Does anyone know if <pto> tags should work within TinyErp reports? I
am
> getting blank output for anything contained within them.
> 
>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stephen.  
Unfortunately I have no idea what TinyErp is except that there's a 
website which directs you to openerp where large amounts of links and 
stuff awaits. How does it relate to reportlab?

-- 

Robin Becker


------------------------------

Message: 3
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:08:42 +0100
From: "Andy Robinson" <andy at reportlab.com>
Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] <pto> tags within TinyErp
To: "Support list for users of Reportlab software"
	<reportlab-users at reportlab.com>
Message-ID:
	<956003ae0806210608h4c43df12p7f632a6904fd85e6 at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

2008/6/21 Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com>:
> Stephen Hall wrote:
>> Does anyone know if <pto> tags should work within TinyErp reports? I
am
>> getting blank output for anything contained within them.
> Unfortunately I have no idea what TinyErp is except that there's a
website
> which directs you to openerp where large amounts of links and stuff
awaits.
> How does it relate to reportlab?

It uses TinyRML, which was an RML clone written by Fabian PInckaers
several years ago.  It uses our engine but not our parser, and since
PTO was implemented years later by ourselves, I am pretty sure it does
not support this tag.

RML is trademarked by ReportLab and the only implementation we can
support properly is our own (commercial) one.

Best Regards,

Andy Robinson
ReportLab


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From bfreeman at appropriatesolutions.com  Mon Jun 23 14:45:10 2008
From: bfreeman at appropriatesolutions.com (Bill Freeman)
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:45:10 -0400
Subject: [reportlab-users] Where's rl_check.py, really?
Message-ID: <485FEF36.6050309@appropriatesolutions.com>

rl_check.py appears to be missing from the location specified in the 
user's guide (http://www.reportlab.org/ftp/).

Is there someone I should tell?

Bill


From robin at reportlab.com  Tue Jun 24 04:58:44 2008
From: robin at reportlab.com (Robin Becker)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:58:44 +0100
Subject: [reportlab-users] Where's rl_check.py, really?
In-Reply-To: <485FEF36.6050309@appropriatesolutions.com>
References: <485FEF36.6050309@appropriatesolutions.com>
Message-ID: <4860B744.6010100@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk>

Bill Freeman wrote:
> rl_check.py appears to be missing from the location specified in the 
> user's guide (http://www.reportlab.org/ftp/).
> 
> Is there someone I should tell?
> 
> Bill
.......
That's here thanks; we aren't running ftp on our server right now so perhaps the 
link is broken. I'll investigate.
-- 
Robin Becker