Reportlab

ReportLab is both the name of a Python-based PDF generation toolkit, and the company that created it. Some functions need the Python Imaging Library (PIL).

ReportLab, since its early beginnings, has been a strong supporter of open-source. In the past we have found the feedback and input from our open-source community an invaluable aid to the development of our products, and we wish to encourage the widest possible use and the maximum amount of benefit for our users in the future.

Because of this, we have released as open-source:

•   The ReportLab Open Source PDF library (the ReportLab Toolkit) - our proven industry-strength PDF generating solution, that you can use for meeting your requirements and deadlines in reporting systems

•   PyRXP - the fastest validating XML parser available for Python, and quite possibly anywhere!

•   Preppy - ReportLab's versatile text-preprocessor

•   PythonPoint - make your very own presentations that can be viewed by anyone with a PDF-viewer!

Note, all our products are cross-platform and known to work with Windows, Macintosh (8/9 & OS X), Solaris, AIX, Linux, FreeBSD and more.

Plone

It is a ready-to-run content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope application server. Plone is easy to set up, extremely flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities, web sites, extranets and intranets.

Plone is a content management framework that works hand-in-hand and sits on top of Zope, a widely-used Open Source web application server and development system. To use Plone, you don't need to learn anything about Zope; to develop new Plone content types, a small amount of Zope knowledge is helpful, and it is covered in the documentation.

Zope itself is written in Python, an easy-to-learn, widely-used and supported Open Source programming language. Python can be used to add new features to Plone, and used to understand or make changes to the way that Zope and Plone work.

By default, Plone stores its contents in Zope's built in transactional object database, the ZODB. There are products and techniques, however, to share information with other sources, such as relational databases, LDAP, filesystem files, etc.

Plone runs on Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and many other platforms; double-click installers are available for Windows and Mac OS X, and RPM packages are available for Linux. For full information, see Download.