Repotrlab 2.0
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PythonPoint is a utility for generating PDF slides from
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a simple XML format - "PythonPoint Markup Language".
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This is early days. It lets you produce quite sophisticated
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output, but the DTD will undoubtedly evolve and change.
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However, I want people to be able to use it this summer so am
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releasing now.
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It is part of the ReportLab distribution; if you have managed
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to run the ReportLab tests, and have installed the Python
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Imaging Library, usage should be straightforward. PIL is not
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required to make slides, but the demo will have a few blanks if
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you omit it.
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To use, cd to the pythonpoint directory and execute:
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pythonpoint.py pythonpoint.xml
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This will create pythonpoint.pdf, which is your manual.
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You can also try 'monterey.xml', which is a talk I gave
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at the O'Reilly Open Source conference in Monterey
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in summer 1999.
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We have issues to resolve over module load paths;
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the easiest solution for now is to put the PythonPoint
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directory on your path; work in a new directory;
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and explicitly include the paths to any custom shapes,
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and style sheets you use.
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- Andy Robinson, 6 April 2000
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