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+#Copyright ReportLab Europe Ltd. 2000-2004
+#see license.txt for license details
+#history http://www.reportlab.co.uk/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/public/reportlab/trunk/reportlab/docs/userguide/app_demos.py
+from reportlab.tools.docco.rl_doc_utils import *
+
+Appendix1("ReportLab Demos")
+disc("""In the subdirectories of $reportlab/demos$ there are a number of working examples showing
+almost all aspects of reportlab in use.""")
+
+heading2("""Odyssey""")
+disc("""
+The three scripts odyssey.py, dodyssey.py and fodyssey.py all take the file odyssey.txt
+and produce PDF documents. The included odyssey.txt is short; a longer and more testing version
+can be found at ftp://ftp.reportlab.com/odyssey.full.zip.
+""")
+eg("""
+Windows
+cd reportlab\\demos\\odyssey
+python odyssey.py
+start odyssey.pdf
+
+Linux
+cd reportlab/demos/odyssey
+python odyssey.py
+acrord odyssey.pdf
+""")
+disc("""Simple formatting is shown by the odyssey.py script. It runs quite fast,
+but all it does is gather the text and force it onto the canvas pages. It does no paragraph
+manipulation at all so you get to see the XML < & > tags.
+""")
+disc("""The scripts fodyssey.py and dodyssey.py handle paragraph formatting so you get
+to see colour changes etc. Both scripts
+use the document template class and the dodyssey.py script shows the ability to do dual column
+layout and uses multiple page templates.
+""")
+
+heading2("""Standard Fonts and Colors""")
+disc("""In $reportlab/demos/stdfonts$ the script stdfonts.py can be used to illustrate
+ReportLab's standard fonts. Run the script using""")
+eg("""
+cd reportlab\\demos\\stdfonts
+python stdfonts.py
+""")
+disc("""
+to produce two PDF documents, StandardFonts_MacRoman.pdf &
+StandardFonts_WinAnsi.pdf which show the two most common built in
+font encodings.
+""")
+disc("""The colortest.py script in $reportlab/demos/colors$ demonstrates the different ways in which
+reportlab can set up and use colors.""")
+disc("""Try running the script and viewing the output document, colortest.pdf. This shows
+different color spaces and a large selection of the colors which are named
+in the $reportlab.lib.colors$ module.
+""")
+heading2("""Py2pdf""")
+disc("""Dinu Gherman (<gherman@europemail.com>) contributed this useful script
+which uses reportlab to produce nicely colorized PDF documents from Python
+scripts including bookmarks for classes, methods and functions.
+To get a nice version of the main script try""")
+eg("""
+cd reportlab/demos/py2pdf
+python py2pdf.py py2pdf.py
+acrord py2pdf.pdf
+""")
+disc("""i.e. we used py2pdf to produce a nice version of py2pdf.py in
+the document with the same rootname and a .pdf extension.
+""")
+disc("""
+The py2pdf.py script has many options which are beyond the scope of this
+simple introduction; consult the comments at the start of the script.
+""")
+heading2("Gadflypaper")
+disc("""
+The Python script, gfe.py, in $reportlab/demos/gadflypaper$ uses an inline style of
+document preparation. The script almost entirely produced by Aaron Watters produces a document
+describing Aaron's $gadfly$ in memory database for Python. To generate the document use
+""")
+eg("""
+cd reportlab\\gadflypaper
+python gfe.py
+start gfe.pdf
+""")
+disc("""
+everything in the PDF document was produced by the script which is why this is an inline style
+of document production. So, to produce a header followed by some text the script uses functions
+$header$ and $p$ which take some text and append to a global story list.
+""")
+eg('''
+header("Conclusion")
+
+p("""The revamped query engine design in Gadfly 2 supports
+..........
+and integration.""")
+''')
+heading2("""Pythonpoint""")
+disc("""Andy Robinson has refined the pythonpoint.py script (in $reportlab\\demos\\pythonpoint$)
+until it is a really useful script. It takes an input file containing an XML markup
+and uses an xmllib style parser to map the tags into PDF slides. When run in its own directory
+pythonpoint.py takes as a default input the file pythonpoint.xml and produces pythonpoint.pdf
+which is documentation for Pythonpoint! You can also see it in action with an older paper
+""")
+eg("""
+cd reportlab\\demos\\pythonpoint
+python pythonpoint.py monterey.xml
+start monterey.pdf
+""")
+disc("""
+Not only is pythonpoint self documenting, but it also demonstrates reportlab and PDF. It uses
+many features of reportlab (document templates, tables etc).
+Exotic features of PDF such as fadeins and bookmarks are also shown to good effect. The use of
+an XML document can be contrasted with the <i>inline</i> style of the gadflypaper demo; the
+content is completely separate from the formatting
+""")
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