Generate PDF from Plone content types

Question

I need to create PDFs from content types (made with dexerity if that matters) so that the user creates a new document and after filling the form a PDF is generated and ready to be downloaded. So basically after creating/modifying the document a PDF should be created and stored in ZODB (actually I'm using blobs) so that I could link the view with a "Download as PDF".

I've seen PDFNode but it doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for. There's also Produce & Publish but it's a webservice(?) and the company I'm going to develop this for doesn't want (for privacy) to send data outside their datacenters.

Any idea?

Answer 1

It seems that you are searching for these:

• Reportlab (official site) for a custom solution
• collective.sendaspdf for an ootb solution