[reportlab-users] open pdf

[Roberto Alsina]

On Thursday 18 June 2009 06:27:56 Robin Becker wrote:

> sudhakar samukham wrote:

> > Hi everyone,

> >

> >    I generated pdf using reportlab,upto here its ok,

> > the pdf is generated at specified location but when

> > want see the output in pdf ,I need to go the specified

> >  location then open it manually by clicking on pdf.

> >

> > Here what i need is that when i run my script the pdf should

> > open automatically instead of not doing any manual opening.

> >

> > Thanks in advance.

> >

> > With regards

> > S Sudhakar.

>

> .......

> This looks more like a problem for the python list. Depending on your

> operating system what the script needs to do is something like

>

> os.system("acrord "+pdfFilePath)	#linux


If there is a xdg-open program in the PATH, it's probably better to use it, 
since there's no guarantee the user has acroread installed (could be using 
okular, xpdf, evince, whatever)


>

> or

>

> os.system("start "+pdfFilePath)		#windows

>

>

> somewhere after the pdf file is created and the file closed. The windows

> version definitely detaches from the current process so that the script can

> continue.


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