>> i want create n manipulate pdf files.
>> can anybody tell me what is pdf syntax n how it works?
PDF syntax is, I believe, a subset of Postscript. Postscript is a
page description language so it defines a document something
like a programming language draws graphics. Lots of positioning
commands, draw lines,arcs etc.
I've never written code to generate raw PDF but I have done
Postscript and I can say that its very hard work! If you can find
a toolkit use it and if you can avoid it altogether and just run
your output through a translator like Acrobat then thats better
still!
> I'm looking into this myself. From what I gather, Reportlab's PDF toolkit
> ("The ReportLab Open Source PDF library") looks like the only sensible way
> to go if you want to write PDF from Python.
I seem to recall a Python module in the Vaults of Parnassus(sp?) that
did PDF generation. But I might be wrong...
Alan G.
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