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                    Printing with Python
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                    Andy Robinson, Robinson Analytics Ltd.
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                    O'Reilly Python Conference, Monterey, 24th August 1999
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                    Background to the project:
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                    London-based consultant and corporate developer
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                    want to do neat Python stuff in the daytime
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                    working for many years on financial modelling
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                    this is one of 6 modules in that system
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                    quickest to deliver, offers very wide benefits
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                    25% of architecture done, but already very useful
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                    Release early, release often!
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                    Goal:
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                    A Reporting Package on the Next Curve...
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                    Report on objects, not databases
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                    Scalable to million page runs
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                    Light enough to embed in any application
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                    Allow reuse of graphical objects across reports
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                    Open and extensible on several levels
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                    Publication quality
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                    Support all the world's languages - one day
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                    Portable Document Format
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                    The New PostScript
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                    Free readers on all platforms
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                    Better than paper - view it, email it, print it
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                    'Final Form' for documents
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                    High end solution - no limits to quality
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                    ...but you can't learn it in Notepad!
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                    PDFgen and PIDDLE
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                    Layer One - PDFgen
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                    makes PDF documents from pure Python
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                    wraps up PDF document structure
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                    exposes nice effects - page transitions, outline trees (RSN!)
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                    low level graphics promitives (postscript imaging model)
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                    Fine control of text placement
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                    Supports Asian text
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                    Supports coordinate transformations and clipping
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                    ...a foundation for other apps to build on
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                    PDFgen Image Support
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                    Python Imaging Library and zlib do all the work - many formats.
                    Images cached (like .pyc files) - very fast builds possible.
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                    Layer Two: PIDDLE
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                    Plug In Drawing, Does Little Else
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                    Easy Graphics Library
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                    Abstract Canvas Interface
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                    Pluggable Back Ends
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                    Same code can do viewing and printing
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                    Standard set of test patterns
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                    Uses Python Imaging Library
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                    Back ends includeTkinter, wxPython, Mac, Pythonwin, PDF, PostScript,
                    OpenGL, Adobe Illustrator and PIL.  Really easy to add a new one!
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                    Layer Three: PLATYPUS
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                    "Page Layout And Typography Using Scripts"
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                    Trying to work out the API now.  Key Concepts:
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                    Drawable objects - can 'wrap to fit'
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                    Frames on page
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                    Frame consumes from a list of drawables until full
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                    Document Models e.g. SimpleFlowDocument
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                    XSL Flow Object model may be a good target
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                    Drawable Objects
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                    Next layer of PIDDLE extensibility.  
                    Each draws in its own coodinate system
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                    paragraph, image, table
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                    chart libraries
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                    diagrams
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                    Open Source - let people contribute new ones.
                    Anything you could have in a view can be a new 
                    drawable type.
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                    Style Sheet Driven
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                    Styles use instance inheritance
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                    Paragraph Styles - Style Sheet Compulsory!
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                    Text Styles within a paragraph
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                    Table and Table Cell Styles
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                    Vision
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                    XML to PDF in one step
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                    Publish to web and print from same source
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                    Financial and Scientific reporting tool
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                    Embedded reporting engine
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                    Volume reporting tool for business
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                    PythonPoint
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                    How I made this presentation...
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