Thanks for the advice. I ended up removing authentication code from the page to generate pdf with htmldoc. It gave a few warnings about table being too wide, but worked OK. I'll try the pdf module some time later.
Regards, Ben Kim Database Developer/Systems Administrator College of Education Texas A&M University On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Angus Lees wrote: > At Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:54:29 -0500 (CDT), Ben Kim wrote: > > I'd like to learn what people use to generate pdf files. I want to > > create pdf from an epl page, with all data from the database. > > Many ways of doing this, depending on what quality/complexity of > output you require and what tools you are more familiar with. > > In the past, I've generated (large) LaTeX files from perl and run > pdflatex over them and slurped the PDF back in. Mostly similar > methods exist for many other (non-perl) typesetting systems like troff > or XSLT-FO-based tools like FOP (as Luiz mentioned) or passivetex. > The slight advantage of the XSLT-FO based tools from the Embperl point > of view, is that you can use Embperl to generate the XML input without > having to write a new Embperl syntax. > > At the simpler end of the spectrum are several perl modules on CPAN. > A quick search on http://search.cpan.org/ turned up high level modules > like PDF::Template or PDF::Report and other tools that require some > PDF knowledge like Text::PDF, PDF::Reuse, PDF::Create or PDF::API2 > > I guess POD format and Pod::pdf, pod2latex|pdflatex or > pod2man|groff -Tps|ps2pdf would also give you a way to generate PDF > from a simple intermediate markup language (no tables unfortunately). > > There are also several methods of turning HTML into PDF. If one of > these tools can generate acceptable output then that might be an easy > route for you to take if you are unfamiliar with other markup > languages. > > If I needed to generate PDF again, I'd probably go with ConTeXt > (like LaTeX but not) and either a custom Embperl syntax or even try > ConTeXt's XML-input features. I'd do this almost entirely because I > am already familiar with (and like) working with ConTeXt -- it is > unlikely to be the easiest solution for your needs. > > -- > - Gus > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
