Frank, In case you want to generate a PDF automatically (eg as part of the workflow of sending pretty print order confirmation to customer). How is/can this be done with your approach?
Günter -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 5:39 PM To: Satchmo users Subject: Re: Generating unicode with trml2pdf Hi Chris, here's that alternative http://vizualbod.com/f/pretty.invoices.tar.gz I spent a day on it, so there is no reason other people should be hitting against the same wall again. In my view making PDF out of genarated HTML is a trivial task that any modern browser / operating system handles out of the box. Making pretty RML invoices is a pain. XHTML/CSS gives you much more control over the printed document than RML. E.g.: Making Chinese invoices or right to left in RML is impossible. I release it under the same licence as Satchmo so that the PDF can be made optional. I would be utterly grateful if this enhancement can make it to the core. It is not a diff, but I hope the packaging is comfortable enough to be a drop in replacement. On Sep 21, 3:56 pm, "Chris Moffitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What's the PDF genaration good for if it can be handled by external > > programs better? > > I chose PDF because I wanted the ability to have lots of control over > the printed document. For example, I wanted to be able to print > mailing labels reliably and I just didn't think that HTML/CSS would > allow me to have that much control over paper size and placement of > text down to the mm. Also, some people may have existing forms and > HTML/CSS do not have the flexibilty to do it all. However, it is > relatively trivial to replace the PDF printing with an alternative so > I personally don't think it's that big a deal. If you want to use it, great. If not, then people are free to use an alternative. > > -Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
