Lo all,
I want to create large number of documents (mainly invoices) using perl. In a couple of months, I should be creating a few hundred documents per month with a few million records in total for the documents (Telecoms implementation).
Now, preferably, I wanted to create MS Word documents for this, but alas, a stick was shoved into that idea. Win32::OLE doesn't work from *Nix, and RTF::Document has like zero documentation (very help full thanks)...
MS Word, thats portable, not to mention the size and lack of revision control, ick. Open source is your friend. Not enough documentation, open the code and have a look yourself...
What's my alternatives???
What is your end goal? You just say that you need to create documents, etc for storage but you don't say how they will be used.
Please keep in mind where possible, I'd like to automatically print the invoices prior to archiving the hard documents. The documents is also quite complex layout wise, with allot of graphs (Images) and about 95% table based... Is HTML really the only alternative here?? I'm not sure whether printing HTML will be a very good idea...
HTML is one option but not the only one. XML would be the naturally most portable and upgradeable probably. Why store them as files in the first place, why not just store them to a database? You can store them in any number of possible ways, txt, csv, pdf, html, xml, or not at all, just store their values and a template and generate them on the fly...
Either way we won't be able to provide you the help without you first setting explicitly what your goals are, and making an attempt yourself.
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