We need to be able to produce custom forms such as invoices, packing
lists, receipts, etc. We have been doing it with LaTeX but there are two
problems with it:
1. The first is technical. LaTex is good at books and articles etc. but
it is not so great at making forms. For example it considers each page
individually so columns will not necessarily line up across pages
depending on how wide the biggest thing in the column is etc. Its job is
really as a typesetting program where the author provides the content
and LaTeX generates the presentation. We need something that will let
us specify both the content and the presentation.
2. Only a couple people here know LaTeX.
We would like to be able to have our web design staff create our forms
for us. We can make great looking forms on the screen exactly how we
want them using XHTML/CSS. And if we hit print it turns out great. The
problem is how can we render XHTML/CSS to postscript in an automated
fashion? We have to be able to do it from a shell script or perl or
python. The first thing that always comes to mind is somehow scripting
Mozilla but I am not aware of a way to script it in this way much less
do it on a headless server. Others have suggested OpenOffice but it
would have the same problem as mozilla. And if it is possible nobody
seems to know anyone who has actually done it.
Ideas?
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Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org
A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right
Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text
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