File conversion for reading outside of Reinteract (or printing)

[Richard Thomas]

Has anyone come up with a method for a method of converting a re-
interact RWS file so that it can either be sent to a printer, or put
in a format (e.g. PDF) that someone without re-interact installed can
read it (complete with embedded graphs)?

All I can think of is to either do screen bitmap grabs or open the
python source code into a word processor and manually paste in
graphics for each of the plots (and text for anything printed out).
Neither of these are very satisfactory.

I realise that the prime motivation for Reinteract is as a tool for
actively developing python scripts, but it would make it quite a
useful (Mathcad-style) reference document if it could easily be
converted to show to others. Even if they are not python-literate,
most people with basic software skills is likely to be able to follow
any mathematical manipulations being coded up.

Richard

[Joseph Coffey]

I agree this would be very useful.

 

I also vote for something that doesn't use too much magic.  Solutions like pyreport (which is close to what you want) are fragile in any complicated environment. 

[Jon Kuhn]

This would be a very useful feature.  We used Reinteract for data analysis for a wihle (and still do sometimes), and it would be very useful to be able to export a PDF. 

-Jon