[reportlab-users] Building/Storing PDF's in memory

[J. R. Carroll]

Thanks Andy.

Which, is exactly what I am trying to do (web request).


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On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Andy Robinson <andy at reportlab.com> wrote:


>

> On 27 December 2012 16:03, J. R. Carroll <jrcarroll at jrcresearch.net>wrote:

>

>> Hi Andy,

>>

>> Thanks - that would be great.  I am currently using Canvas, but see

>> myself doing some platypus work very soon as I am generating quite a few

>> reports.  If you have examples for both that would help quite a bit, but if

>> not, Canvas is preferred.

>>

>>

> Going from (my own, human) memory here...

>

> buf = StringIO.StringIO()

>

> c = Canvas(buf)

> c.drawString(100,100, 'Hello world')

> c.save()

>

>

> raw_pdf_content = buf.getvalue()

>

>

> In Platypus, wherever you would pass in the file name, do the same thing.

>

> A very common use for this pattern is to send files as a response from a

> web request without ever saving them to disk.

>

>

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