Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-04-24, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>>>> I've looked at ReportLab's documentation, but although it
>>>> appears to be able to use bitmap images (e.g jpeg) it doesn't
>>>> appear to be able to use vector images (EPS/PDF/SVG).
>>>>
>>>> Is there a PDF generation library that can place EPS or
>>>> PDF figures on a page?
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>>> You're stuck.
> [...]
>> In fairness to ReportLab I'd like to say that their *commercial* 
>> products can do everything the OP asks for and more besides, but 
>> unfortunately they are mostly targeted at the "enterprise" (read: big 
>> money) market.
> 
> This is just a smallish app for internal use by 1-2 people, so
> I probably can't justify spending much cash.  I'll check on the
> ReportLab pricing. By the time I figure out how to bundle
> Ghostscript with py2exe, it will probably have been cheaper to
> pay for a copy of ReportLab.  But it's usually easier to spend
> a week of engineering time that it is to spend $1000.
> 
In which case you can safely spend almost six months before anyone 
complains about the cost justification :-(

regards
  Steve
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