[Zope] Printing, let's try this again... Business applications printing

[John Leach]

Check out
http://www.reportlab.com/
I'm using this stuff to create PDF files of invoices and delivery dockets
and send them out by email.
I've also created a formatting language that allows me to create either PDFs
or send directly to a PCL5-speaking laser printer.
Rgds
John Leach
http://www.bosware.com.au


-----Original Message-----
From: Felipe E. Barousse <fbarousse@piensa.com>
To: zope@zope.org <zope@zope.org>
Date: Sunday, May 14, 2000 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Printing, let's try this again... Business applications
printing


>I am using Zope with a billing and invoicing system (both written
>within Zope). The user fills in a complex dynamic form on the screen
>and when fnished hits a button that send the data to an external
>method which in turn send the formatted page to the Linux print spool
>system which in turn forwards this to the appropiate remote printer
>which, most of the time are attached to Winndows 9X (yucks!!) PC's
>
>I am about to lauch a project to create a fully flexible report writer
>for Zope applications, kind of a product.  Thinking on the design now
>though...
>
>Comments ?
>
>Felipe Barousse
>
>
>
>--- In zope@egroups.com, "Daniel G. Rusch" <drusch@g...> wrote:
>> I have a site that users use to build quotes. Once they get them the
>way
>> they like them they are going to need to print them. The browser
>print
>> button is not a good solution for many reasons, we need a header and
>> footer on pages, pagination etc.
>>
>> So the the question once again is: Is anyone printing from Zope.
>i.e.
>> sending html to a html to pdf converter, or some other solution?
>Note:
>> The ZPdfDocument doesnt convert the complete html page.
>>
>> Dan
>>
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