generating PDF's via code - looking for ideas

[Scott Karlin]

On 09/30/10 11:54, list user wrote:
> Hi All;
> 
> I'm looking for a way to generate a PDF report based on a set of data in
> a database and a set of pre-generated graphs via some sort of procedural
> method based on a template.
> 
> We tried to do this via open office & it's templating features but this
> process requires us to first generate an odt file based on xml and then
> open the open office odt file and export to a PDF, unfortunately our
> first stab generated a 150GB odt file. This is of course an unacceptable
> method. So, I'm looking for a way to generate PDF's straight away as
> described above. Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 

Check out ReportLab:
http://www.reportlab.com/software/opensource/

Scott