Colony Print Infra-structure ¶

Small web app for printing of Colony based documents.

This project includes two main components:

The Web App end-point that provides XML to Binie conversion colony_print.controllers
The structure conversion infra-structure (Visitors, AST, etc.) colony_print.printing

Installation¶

Pre-requisites¶

apt-get install gcc python-dev
pip install --upgrade appier netius pillow reportlab

Run Server¶

pip install colony_print
python -m colony_print.main

Run Node¶

pip install colony_print
BASE_URL=$BASE_URL \
SECRET_KEY=$SECRET_KEY \
NODE_ID=$NODE_ID \
NODE_NAME=$NODE_NAME \
NODE_LOCATION=$NODE_LOCATION \
python -m colony_print.node

Fonts¶

To be able to use new fonts (other than the ones provided by the system) one must install them into the /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory so they are exposed and ready to be used by the PDF generation infra-structure. For example calibri is one type of font that should be exported to an UNIX machine as it is used by mani colony generated documents.

Running¶

PORT=8686 \
PYTHONPATH=$BASE_PATH/colony_print/src python \
$BASE_PATH/colony_print/src/colony_print/main.py

License¶

Colony Print Infra-structure is currently licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Colony Print Infra-structure¶