pythonwysiwygreportlabrml

Does a wysiwyg editor for report lab's rml exist?


I've searched around for drag-and-drop editors which act similarly to MSAccess report builder but generates Report Markup Language™. However, I could not find any existing products.

Could it be true then that everyone hand codes the designs of their PDFs? Surely there must be a WYSIWYG editor somewhere.

Anyone know of any? It would help tremendously.

Note. Would there be any demand for one to be built?


Solution

  • To the best of my knowledge none exists, probably because those of us using ReportLab choose it because we chose Python first and then went looking for a tool to generate PDF reports from within Python.

    What would be the purpose of a WYSIWYG RML editor? In general I think most of us generate RML (or use Platypus) in code based on the results of processing some kind of data in Python, so most of the interesting stuff has to be done in code anyway.