hello all,
I am stuck with a strange requirement.
I need a library that can help me display a pdf file as a report and
also want a way to print the same pdf file in a platform independent
way.
if that's not possible then I at least need the code for useing some
library for connecting to acrobat reader and giving the print command
on windows and some thing similar on ubuntu linux.
the problem is that I want to display reports in my application. the
user should be able to view the formatted report on screen and at his
choice click the print button on the screen to send it to the printer.
I have reportlab installed and that is sufficient to generate pdf reports.
but I still can't fine the way to display it directly and print it directly.
Please help me.
Krishnakant.
17  8457 
Are you trying to:
a) Make the PDF file open in it's default application?
b) Create a PDF-reader in Python?
....because your question is somewhat unclear. Report Lab has no PDF viewer.
You would need a PDF/PostScript parser to do that and that's more of a job
than I think you're looking for.
well yes,
I need to view reports on line and also print them from within my app.
so yes I need to display the pdf in my app and print it as well.
regards.
Krishnakant
krishnakant Mane wrote:
hello all,
I am stuck with a strange requirement.
I need a library that can help me display a pdf file as a report and
also want a way to print the same pdf file in a platform independent
way.
if that's not possible then I at least need the code for useing some
library for connecting to acrobat reader and giving the print command
on windows and some thing similar on ubuntu linux.
the problem is that I want to display reports in my application. the
user should be able to view the formatted report on screen and at his
choice click the print button on the screen to send it to the printer.
I have reportlab installed and that is sufficient to generate pdf reports.
but I still can't fine the way to display it directly and print it
directly.
Please help me.
Krishnakant.
Just let the registered .PDF viewer do it for you.
os.start('myfil e.pdf')
Launches whatever is registered as .PDF viewer and user
can then print, save, zoom, etc. on their own.
-Larry
On 2007-02-12, Larry Bates <la*********@we bsafe.comwrote:
>I at least need the code for useing some library for
connecting to acrobat reader and giving the print command on
windows and some thing similar on ubuntu linux.
Just let the registered .PDF viewer do it for you.
os.start('myfil e.pdf')
Eh? I don't see os.start() it either 2.5 or 2.44
documentation, and it's sure not there in 2.4.3:
$ python
Python 2.4.3 (#1, Dec 10 2006, 22:09:09)
[GCC 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more
information.
>>import os
print os.start
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'start'
I did find os.startfile() in the docs, but it's shown as
windows-only (it's not present under Linux).
Launches whatever is registered as .PDF viewer and user
can then print, save, zoom, etc. on their own.
Really?
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Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2007-02-12, Larry Bates <la*********@we bsafe.comwrote:
>>I at least need the code for useing some library for
connecting to acrobat reader and giving the print command on
windows and some thing similar on ubuntu linux.
>Just let the registered .PDF viewer do it for you.
os.start('myfi le.pdf')
Eh? I don't see os.start() it either 2.5 or 2.44
documentation, and it's sure not there in 2.4.3:
$ python
Python 2.4.3 (#1, Dec 10 2006, 22:09:09)
[GCC 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more
information.
>>import os
>>print os.start
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'start'
I did find os.startfile() in the docs, but it's shown as
windows-only (it's not present under Linux).
>Launches whatever is registered as .PDF viewer and user
can then print, save, zoom, etc. on their own.
Really?
My bad. os.system()
-Larry
os.start does not work.. attribute error.
regards.
Krishnakant.
On 2007-02-12, Larry Bates <la*********@we bsafe.comwrote:
On 2007-02-12, Larry Bates <la*********@we bsafe.comwrote:
>>
>>>I at least need the code for useing some library for
connecting to acrobat reader and giving the print command on
windows and some thing similar on ubuntu linux.
>>Just let the registered .PDF viewer do it for you.
os.start('myf ile.pdf')
Eh? I don't see os.start() it either 2.5 or 2.44
documentatio n, and it's sure not there in 2.4.3:
My bad. os.system()
That doesn't work either:
$ ls -l user.pdf
-rw------- 1 grante users 35640 2005-11-21 14:33 user.pdf
$ python
Python 2.4.3 (#1, Dec 10 2006, 22:09:09)
[GCC 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more
information.
>>import os
os.system('us er.pdf')
sh: user.pdf: command not found
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>>>
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On Feb 12, 3:06 pm, "krishnakan t Mane" <researchb...@g mail.comwrote:
os.start does not work.. attribute error.
regards.
Krishnakant.
It's os.system('thef ile') or os.system('star t thefile') but
that's windows only. It seems like there's no
platform-independent way to launch a preferred application to open
a file, but...
based on <http://cweiske.de/howto/launch/allinone.html>
I would suggest (by looking at sys.platform) to use "start" on
windows, "open" on mac, and on linux to use the xdg-open shell
script which is part of XdgUtils...
<http://portland.freede sktop.org/wiki/>
It works standalone. Even seems it would not take too much
effort to port it to python if you want.
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2007-02-12, Larry Bates <la*********@we bsafe.comwrote:
>On 2007-02-12, Larry Bates <la*********@we bsafe.comwrote:
>>>>I at least need the code for useing some library for
connectin g to acrobat reader and giving the print command on
windows and some thing similar on ubuntu linux.
Just let the registered .PDF viewer do it for you.
os.start('my file.pdf')
Eh? I don't see os.start() it either 2.5 or 2.44
documentation , and it's sure not there in 2.4.3:
My bad. os.system()
That doesn't work either:
$ ls -l user.pdf
-rw------- 1 grante users 35640 2005-11-21 14:33 user.pdf
$ python
Python 2.4.3 (#1, Dec 10 2006, 22:09:09)
[GCC 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more
information.
>>import os
>>os.system('us er.pdf')
sh: user.pdf: command not found
32512
>>>
Works fine on my system. You linux guys just have it hard.
The op said "windows". I can't answer for ubuntu linux but
maybe you can help there?
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