Re: [BangPypers] Creating PPT with graphs

2011-01-13 Thread Santosh Rajan
Looks more like a systems engineering problem to me rather than a programming language problem. IMHO you should first exhaust all possibilities of using Unix services/Commands. Use code only where the logic dictates that you use a programming language. (where a shell script will not suffice). On

Re: [BangPypers] Creating PPT with graphs

2011-01-13 Thread Venkatraman S
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Jins Thomas wrote: > > 1. Would these kind of problems happen if i had used Python also > Looks like the link to OO is a weak link; so any changes in OO can cause trouble for you. More than that, if the program that was written was 'bad', the same thing can happe

Re: [BangPypers] Creating PPT with graphs

2011-01-13 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 16:59 +0530, Jins Thomas wrote: > 1. Would these kind of problems happen if i had used Python also no - I have had the same experience > > 2. How good is the similar modules for creating OpenOffice documents, > pdfs , > graphs as png files in Python afaik better than perl >

[BangPypers] Creating PPT with graphs

2011-01-13 Thread Jins Thomas
Hi all, To be frank i have a doubt whether it's a right thing to ask in this forum. We had a requirement where we need to process some HTML files (which contains tabular data) and create some graphs and finally create a PPT which contains the graphs and a pdf which contains its tabular data. We