http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/firebird/2015-12-01T19:45:18-08:00ActiveState Code Recipes2015-12-01T19:45:18-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579131-publish-firebird-sql-data-to-pdf-with-xtopdf/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579131 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/database/">database</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/firebird/">firebird</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdfwriter/">pdfwriter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sql/">sql</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>). </p> <p>This recipe shows how to publish data from the Firebird RDBMS to PDF, using the xtopdf toolkit and the fbd Python driver for Firebird. Firebird is a cross-platform, open source RDBMS based on the former Interbase RDBMS from Borland, which they used to bundle with some of their developmemt tools, such as Borland C++ and Borland Delphi.</p> <p>The recipe reads data from a Firebird table, using the fbd Python driver for Firebird, and writes it to PDF, using the xtopdf toolkit. See:</p> <p><a href="http://jugad2.blogspot.in/p/xtopdf-pdf-creation-library.html" rel="nofollow">http://jugad2.blogspot.in/p/xtopdf-pdf-creation-library.html</a></p> <p>for information on xtopdf.</p> <p>It assumes that a Firebird database called test.fdb exists under /temp/firebird (C:\temp\firebird, really - the test was done on Windows), and that it has a contacts table with the structure shown in the code of the recipe.</p> <p>More details and sample output are here:</p> <p><a href="http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/01/by-vasudev-ram-pdf-firebird-is-cross.html" rel="nofollow">http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/01/by-vasudev-ram-pdf-firebird-is-cross.html</a></p>