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Simon Brunning SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk
Wed Oct 25 10:24:54 EDT 2000 
> From:	Dale Strickland-Clark [SMTP:dale at out-think.NOSPAMco.uk]
> I like the idea of using HTML but it doesn't understand the printed
> page so headings, headers and footers are trickey.
 
The HTMLgen package (from the Starship, which is *still* down) is a piece of
cake. I recommend it. If you can find it!
 
> Other options include PDF (which I'd have to research cos I know
> nothing about it) and driving Word or Excel through COM to build pages
> - which isn't an attractive thought.
 
For PDF, see Reportlab (from <http://www.reportlab.com>). I haven't used it
myself (yet), but it certainly looks powerful.

If you are thinking about using COM, then you should certainly get hold of
'Python Programming on Win32' (ISBN 1565926218) - something else that I can
recommend.

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk




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