[PyQt] pyqt server side and pdf file output

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

On Friday 01 October 2010, 14:35:11 damiano michael wrote:
>   hi !
>
> i would like to write a server side python script that generate .pdf
> documents.
>
> for the moment i have Python 2.7 installed server side
> and matplolib installed server side too.
>
> A simple script that create a simple plot and generate a .png picture
> works.
>
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>
> Is it possible to do the same thing with PYQt ?
> I can install PyQT server side and then what must i do ?

PyQt knows terminal-less modes, so yes, you can run PyQt on a server.
 - Instantiate your app with QCoreApplication
 - use PyQwt for the plots
 - check out PyQwt examples, how to generate svn's and pdf's from your code

Hth,
Pete