[reportlab-users] ANNOUNCE: Client-server PDF creation with xtopdf and ReportLab and Python and XML-RPC

[Vasudev Ram]

Hi list,

I'm happy to announce the release of v1.0 of PDFXMLRPC, a client-server
application that lets users create PDF content from text, over the Internet
or their intranet, using Reportlab, xtopdf, XML-RPC and Python.

Usage example for PDFXMLRPC:

You can run the server on one computer which is connected to the Internet.
You can run the client on another computer which is connected to the
Internet.

When you run the client, it sends text content to the server. The server
then converts this text to PDF, and sends that PDF content back to the
client over the Internet. The client then writes that PDF content to a local
PDF file, which the user can then open / print / etc.
(But also see the part about callability (i.e., programmability) of both the
client and server below.)

The announcement of PDFXMLRPC is here on my blog:

http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2009/10/client-server-pdf-creation-with-xtopdf.html

That blog post has a link to a zip file that you can download, which
contains the PDFXMLRPC package.

The zip file contains the following files:

- PDFXMLRPCServer.py - the server
- PDFXMLRPCClient.py - the client
- README.txt - documentation of the prerequisites needed (*), the links to
get them from, the steps to install PDFXMLRPC, and steps to run it (the
server and the client).
- License.txt - the license file (PDFXMLRPC is released under the BSD
License)
(*) The prerequisites are:

- xtopdf v1.0, Reportlab v1.x and Python 2.x or higher for the server

-  Python 2.x or higher for the client

(XML-RPC is required for both the client and the server, but since it is
included in the standard Python library, I don't treat it as a separate
prerequisite).

Although both the server and the client programs contain main() functions,
and therefore both can be run as standalone programs, they are also both
callable. There is one "top-level" class in each of the server and the
client - PDFXMLRPCServer and PDFXMLRPCClient respectively.

The main functions in the server and client, act as examples of how to call
those classes.

Since the classes are callable, you can incorporate the functionality of the
server and the client, into your own larger programs, to get the
functionality of client/server PDF creation over the Net, in your own
applications.

I welcome any feedback on this software.

Finally, thanks a lot to the Reportlab team and all the users who've helped
improve it, for their work.

Thanks,
Vasudev Ram
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