Recipe 579131 revision 1

# FirebirdToPDF.py
# Author: Vasudev Ram - http://jugad2.blogspot.com
# Demo program to show how to convert Firebird RDBMS data to PDF.
# Uses xtopdf, Reportlab, Firebird RDBMS and fdb Python driver for Firebird.

import fdb
from PDFWriter import PDFWriter

con = fdb.connect(dsn='localhost:/temp/firebird/test.fdb', 
    user='dummy',  password='dummy')

cur = con.cursor()
select_stmt = 'select * from contacts order by name desc'
cur.execute(select_stmt)
pw = PDFWriter("contacts.pdf")
pw.setFont("Courier", 12)
pw.setHeader("Firebird RDBMS data (contacts.fdb) to PDF")
pw.setFooter("Generated by xtopdf using fdb Firebird driver for Python")
for (id, name, address) in cur:
    print id, name, address
    pw.writeLine(str(id) + " " + name + " " + address)
pw.close()

# EOF

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