Dear list,
Thanks for all the replies.
My problem with usual pdf tools is that in my case, the document is
changing all the time, and it's almost not worth to spend time to create a
document template.
So I'd like some way to generate pdf right from html, like htmldoc. I
think it does a reasonable job for simple pages, static and dynamic (for
epl as well). It does not work well with dynamic menus etc.
htmldoc -f a.pdf "http://benix.tamu.edu/reports.epl"; --webpage
But the problem is I cannot fake authentication (session id), unless I
create a separate page that does not need authentication. So I want to
generate the static html file for converting to pdf at the same time when
the user completes the page and sees the output on the browser. (so that I
don't have to fake session id.)
I was not sure if CPAN's PDF does the job similarly from the description
there. It seemed to me I had to write the entire pdf page manually, and
it's not what I want. I'll check again, but if there' a solution that does
not require me to "prepare" pdf, it would be great.
I haven't seen a comment on Teeing the output. Is it possible to send the
output of a file, while it's also sent to the browser? (Like output
buffering then teeing?)
Regards,
Ben Kim
Database Developer/Systems Administrator
College of Education
Texas A&M University
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Gerald Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >
> > The way I did it, was to have a template latex file, with
> > some special keywords like ADDRESS, MONEYSUM etc. which I
> > would search and replace with a simple regexp while writing
> > the new file into /tmp.
>
> I never have used latex, but if you put [+ $fdat{ADDRESS} +] (or something
> similar) in the file, you should be even able to process it with Embperl,
> before PDF creation.
>
> Gerald
>
>
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