Advanced printing/layout tools

2010-01-01 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've been tasked to print a phonebook style directory for an organization. The data will be coming out of a MySQL database and can be easily saved as comma-delimited, or whatever text format I need. My specific question is, what open source tools would one use to tackle a project

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

2010-01-01 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:30:09 -0600, Doug Poland d...@polands.org wrote: Hello, I've been tasked to print a phonebook style directory for an organization. The data will be coming out of a MySQL database and can be easily saved as comma-delimited, or whatever text format I need. My

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

2010-01-01 Thread Doug Poland
On 2010-01-01 11:42, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:30:09 -0600, Doug Polandd...@polands.org wrote: Hello, I've been tasked to print a phonebook style directory for an organization. The data will be coming out of a MySQL database and can be easily saved as comma-delimited, or

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

2010-01-01 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:11:05 -0600, Doug Poland d...@polands.org wrote: On 2010-01-01 11:42, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:30:09 -0600, Doug Polandd...@polands.org wrote: Hello, I've been tasked to print a phonebook style directory for an organization. The data will be

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

2010-01-01 Thread Doug Poland
On 2010-01-01 14:18, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 07:36:25PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:24:21 +0100, Roland Smithrsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: If the material is more than one page (which I suspect is the case her), a tabular environment for the complete list

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

2010-01-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 04:25:08PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: Thanks for the info so far. I have much to learn about LaTeX, that is certain. To complicate matters, the output will be on US Letter, landscape, multi-column, multi-sided, booklet format. No doubt LaTeX will handle the

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

2010-01-01 Thread George Davidovich
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 04:25:08PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: On 2010-01-01 14:18, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 07:36:25PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:24:21 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: Thanks for the info so far. I have much to learn about LaTeX, that is

Re: Advanced printing/layout tools

2010-01-01 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:25:08 -0600, Doug Poland d...@polands.org wrote: Thanks for the info so far. I have much to learn about LaTeX, that is certain. To complicate matters, the output will be on US Letter, landscape, multi-column, multi-sided, booklet format. No doubt LaTeX will handle