Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-27 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Cameron Laird wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> . >> . >> . >> >>>Read and search them for strings. If I could do that on wi

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-27 Thread paron
Hopefully, Adobe will choose to support SVG as a response to Microsoft's "Metro", and take us all off the hook with respect to cracking open their proprietary format. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-26 Thread rbt
Cameron Laird wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . Read and search them for strings. If I could do that on windows, linux and mac with the *same* bit of Python code, I'd be very happy ;)

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-26 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >Read and search them for strings. If I could do that on windows, linux >and mac with the *same* bit of Python code, I'd be very happy ;) Textual content,

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-26 Thread rbt
Cameron Laird wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . OK, I'm done seeking to provoke. So, it's official. Perl has *much*, *much* better support for dealing with PDF files than does Python.

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-26 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >OK, I'm done seeking to provoke. So, it's official. Perl has *much*, >*much* better support for dealing with PDF files than does Python.

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-26 Thread rbt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robin Becker wrote: rbt wrote: .. I just want to read PDF files in a portable way (windows, linux, mac) from within Python. .. I suppose you mean extract PDF pages and do something with them. http://www.reportlab.com does have a tool that handles that in Python. It'

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-26 Thread davidb
Robin Becker wrote: > rbt wrote: > .. > > > > I just want to read PDF files in a portable way (windows, linux, mac) > > from within Python. > > > .. > > I suppose you mean extract PDF pages and do something with them. > http://www.reportlab.com does have a tool that handles that in > Python

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-26 Thread TZOTZIOY
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:58:29 +0300, rumours say that Christos "TZOTZIOY" Georgiou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/oxford/480.htm BTW, does anyone see the connection between: > we should make every possible effort on our own behalf > and only then ask

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-26 Thread TZOTZIOY
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:00:51 -0400, rumours say that Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >Peter Hansen wrote: >> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >>> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:24:36 +0300, Christos "TZOTZIOY" Georgiou: I don't know any related myth of anglo-saxon origin to quote. >>>

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-25 Thread rbt
Philippe C. Martin wrote: This is highly frustrating !! Did Athena come to help or not ? Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:32:11 -0400, rumours say that rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: I do not seek to provoke. Sorry if my question comes across that way to you

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-25 Thread Philippe C. Martin
This is highly frustrating !! Did Athena come to help or not ? Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote: > On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:32:11 -0400, rumours say that rbt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: > >>I do not seek to provoke. Sorry if my question comes across that way to >>you. > > Thank

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-25 Thread Michael Hoffman
Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote: [0] there's an ancient myth about a peasant's cart getting stuck in the mud, so the peasant starts calling out for help from goddess Athena. Another peasant passing by tells him: "Syn Athena kai kheira kinei", which means, more or less, "keep on calling Athena, but

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-25 Thread rbt
Peter Hansen wrote: Peter Hansen wrote: Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:24:36 +0300, Christos "TZOTZIOY" Georgiou: I don't know any related myth of anglo-saxon origin to quote. The most commonly known phrasing would likely be "God only helps those who help themselves". Google

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-25 Thread Peter Hansen
Peter Hansen wrote: Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:24:36 +0300, Christos "TZOTZIOY" Georgiou: I don't know any related myth of anglo-saxon origin to quote. The most commonly known phrasing would likely be "God only helps those who help themselves". Google suggests that removin

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-25 Thread Peter Hansen
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:24:36 +0300, Christos "TZOTZIOY" Georgiou: I don't know any related myth of anglo-saxon origin to quote. The most commonly known phrasing would likely be "God only helps those who help themselves". Google suggests that removing the word "only" pro

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-25 Thread Robin Becker
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: ... The most commonly known phrasing would likely be "God only helps those who help themselves". Of course for politicians and others with troughed snouts it should read "God punish those that help themselves", never seems to work out in practice though :( -g

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-25 Thread Alex
rbt wrote: I just want to read PDF files in a portable way (windows, linux, mac) from within Python. reportlab is an excelent tool for generating pdf files, but as far as I know, it doesn't "read" pdf's. http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html there's a project in sourceforge called pdf playgr

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-25 Thread Robin Becker
rbt wrote: .. I just want to read PDF files in a portable way (windows, linux, mac) from within Python. .. I suppose you mean extract PDF pages and do something with them. http://www.reportlab.com does have a tool that handles that in Python. It's not free though. There are indeed a nu

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-25 Thread TZOTZIOY
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:32:11 -0400, rumours say that rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >I do not seek to provoke. Sorry if my question comes across that way to you. Thanks for giving attention to my post, no need for apologies. By the way, you didn't say in which way ReportLab and pdfl

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-25 Thread rbt
Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:23:43 -0400, rumours say that rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: Are there any plans in the near future to support PDF files in Python as thoroughly and completely as Perl does? Before we let you know about our plans, what are *

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-25 Thread TZOTZIOY
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:23:43 -0400, rumours say that rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >Are there any plans in the near future to support PDF files in Python as >thoroughly and completely as Perl does? Before we let you know about our plans, what are *your* plans on this subject? :

Re: Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-25 Thread Mike Meyer
rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there any plans in the near future to support PDF files in Python > as thoroughly and completely as Perl does? > > http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/search?query=pdf&mode=dist Claiming that CPAN represents Perl "supporting" something isn't really accurate. Those are

Python, Perl & PDF files

2005-04-25 Thread rbt
Are there any plans in the near future to support PDF files in Python as thoroughly and completely as Perl does? http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/search?query=pdf&mode=dist I love Python's clean syntax and ease of use, etc. But on some things (PDF for example) as barbaric as Perl's syntax is, it does