Re: pdf generation

2005-02-01 Thread Ben Kim
Many thanks. It'd be helpful. Regards, Ben Kim On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Michael Stepanov wrote: > Ben Kim wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > 1. pdf generation > > I'd like to learn what people use to generate pdf files. I want to > > create pdf from a

Re: pdf generation

2005-01-31 Thread Michael Stepanov
Ben Kim wrote: Dear list, 1. pdf generation 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. We use Embperl and htmldoc to build PDF files. A fuctionality is implemented into Perl module. There is a possibili

RE: pdf generation

2004-09-28 Thread Ben Kim
Thanks for the advice. Regards, Ben Kim Database Developer/Systems Administrator College of Education Texas A&M University On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Gerald Richter wrote: > > > > 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

Re: pdf generation

2004-09-28 Thread Ben Kim
Thanks for the advice. Regards, Ben Kim Database Developer/Systems Administrator College of Education Texas A&M University On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Dirk Jagdmann 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 da

Re: pdf generation

2004-09-28 Thread Ben Kim
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

RE: pdf generation

2004-09-22 Thread Gerald Richter
> > 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?) > It does not work out of the box, but you can create a small mod_perl handler (or cgi) that basicly calls Execute, put

RE: pdf generation

2004-09-22 Thread Ben Kim
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 reasonab

RE: pdf generation

2004-09-22 Thread Gerald Richter
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 simi

Re: pdf generation

2004-09-22 Thread Dirk Jagdmann
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. I have always used LaTeX in the past, because latex gives me a comfortable way to generate tables (I generated invoices). The way I did it, was to have a template latex

Re: pdf generation

2004-09-21 Thread Angus Lees
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 m

Re: pdf generation

2004-09-20 Thread Luiz Fernando B. Ribeiro
Ben Kim wrote: Dear list, 1. pdf generation 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. Take a look at the FOP project from the Apache Group. It's a Java subsystem able to render PDF from a xml

pdf generation

2004-09-20 Thread Ben Kim
Dear list, 1. pdf generation 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. 2. Teeing the output to browser / filesystem Related with this, I'd also like to know whether there's a way to print t