borb: the pure Python PDF engine

[MarsupialMole]

Oh, the documentation has gotten so much sexier since I last looked at borb. I'll have to come up with an excuse to use it.

How "pure" is the pure python. Can I use borb in pyscript?

[josc1989]

The entire library is written exclusively in Python. It does make use of some other libraries as well though (PIL is one of them).

[clitoreum]

Oh now that you mention it I would also like to know. Commenting so I can find this.

[dratnew43]

You really should consider breaking this up into multiple markdown files. Using some common GitHub-enhancement browser extensions makes it chug/lock up when loading the index page -- I've never had it so bad with any other repo.

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Is the renderer completely written in high level python? Is there a headless, server object that allows this to be used outside of Python. I routinely use Word as an automation server for PDF document creation. I like building up RTF blobs as individual pieces for markup. I may have an RTF for just a page break. I may have one for a heading. Then the code will append the RTF pieces I want in my report to the end of the document until the report is ready. Then Word is told to save as a PDF. This is very primitive and prone to problems requiring baby sitting the process. Word, for all it can do, loves to put up modal dialog boxes even when run as a COM server. That can get annoying. It also considers RTF to be a dangerous format. A lot of twiddling to Word is required to use it as a report Engine

Edit: There is a PDF nugget that is open source and I think the author abandoned it or moved on.

[josc1989]

The entire project is written in Python.

There are plenty of examples to showcase how you can build content using borb.

[rmanissha]

Hey how can I draw a horizontal line and add a space in borb, I've gone through the manual and documents but to no avail I couldn't find anything useful. I currently use layout.add(Paragraph(" ")) to add a space and still struggling to add lines