[Seaside] Printing?

[Lukas Renggli]

Don't forget to check out the archive. This is a question that comes
up once in a while and dozens of possibilities have been discussed and
listed here in the mailing-list. It would be good if somebody could
add a summary to the FAQ.

Lukas

On 8/9/08, Krishna <v.krishnakumar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Richard E. Flower <rickf at ca-flower.com> wrote:
>  > Thanks David -- I didn't know that.. I was hoping it could spit out a PDF
>  > report possibly.. (yes, I've not looked
>  > into it very deeply obviously!)..
>  >
>  > -- Rick
>  >
>  > On Aug 8, 2008, at 10:58 AM, David Buck wrote:
>  >
>  >> For generating a document on the server and transferring it to the client
>  >> running a web browser, PDF format would be better than Simberon Reports.
>  >>  The latter draws the reports onto bitmaps and expects to be able to send
>  >> them directly to the printer.
>  >>
>  >> David Buck
>  >>
>  >> Richard E. Flower wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>> What about Simberon Reports?  There's a VW version but I'm not
>  >>> sure if a Squeak version exists or not..  I've never used it but am
>  >>> planning
>  >>> on playing with it later this year..
>  >>>
>  >>> -- Rick
>  >>>
>  >>> On Aug 8, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Bill Schwab wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>>> I have a potential application for Seaside, but in our electronic world,
>  >>>> they want to print.  Sending a programmatically generated pdf document
>  >>>> back to the browser should suffice - I think.  My first thought is to do
>  >>>> that via LaTeX; generate the source and then (perhaps on Linux) pipe it
>  >>>> into tex2pdf or whatever it's called, and then route that back to the
>  >>>> browser through Seaside and OS Process.
>  >>>>
>
>
> I've used groff (and tbl) for generating PDFs via Postscript. The
>  pipeline is fast and the resulting PDF can be served inline. If you
>  decided to take this route then also checkout the Heirloom document
>  tools project (http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html) for
>  their's seem to be more "modern".
>
>  Cheers,
>  -Krishna
>
>
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