On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:32:58PM +0200, Patrick wrote: > Few seconds, at least for my cases (and by doing PUSHs to the Web > client it let it know exactly where we are at the generation).
Okay, that sounds bareable. > You should also consider, if possible, to generate files in advance > of use. That would have been a possibility if there wasn't such a high impact when you generate the statistics I need. > I also think that should not mess with the PDF output directly. > Because it looks like text, but as you show yourself, it is in fact > more complicated. That is true, but it's a fine line between either having to do ALL the work everytime a layout has to change (try getting any of your graphical designers to make a layout in LaTeX :( ) or "just" parsing a PDF. And since placing content at an absolute position isn't really an option either it's not possible just to import the PDF and then write the information needed to the document. I wonder how much PDI from pdflib.org will do.. -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer> <http://photos.eibner.dk/>
