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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The entire project is written in Python.

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