z3c.rml -- An alternative implementation of RML

This is an alternative implementation of ReportLab's RML PDF generation XML format. Like the original implementation, it is based on ReportLab's reportlab library.

You can read all about z3c.rml and see many examples on how to use it, see the RML Reference

Install on pip:

pip install z3c.rml

z3c.rml is then available on the commandline as z3c.rml.:

$ z3c.rml --help
usage: rml2pdf [-h]
               xmlInputName [outputFileName] [outDir]
               [dtdDir]

Converts file in RML format into PDF file.

positional arguments:
  xmlInputName    RML file to be processed
  outputFileName  output PDF file name
  outDir          output directory
  dtdDir          directory with XML DTD (not yet supported)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help      show this help message and exit

Copyright (c) 2007 Zope Foundation and Contributors.

Save this file as file.rml:

<!DOCTYPE document SYSTEM "rml.dtd">
<document filename="example_01.pdf">
 <template showBoundary="1"> <!--Debugging is now turned on, frame outlines -->
 <!--will appear on the page -->
 <pageTemplate id="main">
 <!-- two frames are defined here: -->
 <frame id="first" x1="100" y1="400" width="150" height="200"/>
 <frame id="second" x1="300" y1="400" width="150" height="200"/>
 </pageTemplate>
 </template>
 <stylesheet>
 <!-- still empty...-->
 </stylesheet>
 <story>
 <para>
 Welcome to RML.
 </para>
 </story>
</document>

Then run:

$ z3c.rml file.rml

The output will be example_01.pdf as defined in the document

Codewise you can do:

from z3c.rml import rml2pdf
rml2pdf.go('file.rml','file.pdf')