Re: PDF generation

2002-04-20 Thread David Wheeler
On 4/19/02 10:33 PM, "Stas Bekman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> claimed: > If your end goal is PS, better generated PS in first place. From my > experience > ps -> pdf -> ps, makes the final PS a much bigger file (5-10 times > bigger). I use html2ps for generating PS files (used for generating the > mod_p

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-19 Thread Stas Bekman
Andrew Ho wrote: > Hello, > > DW>This looks pretty good to me. Can anyone suggest how I might > DW>programmtically send a PDF to a printer once I've generated it in > DW>Perl/mod_perl? > > Use either Ghostscript or Adobe Acrobat Reader to convert to Postscript, > then print in your normal manner

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-19 Thread Sam Tregar
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Andrew Ho wrote: > DW>This looks pretty good to me. Can anyone suggest how I might > DW>programmtically send a PDF to a printer once I've generated it in > DW>Perl/mod_perl? > > Use either Ghostscript or Adobe Acrobat Reader to convert to Postscript, > then print in your norm

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-19 Thread Andrew Ho
Hello, DW>This looks pretty good to me. Can anyone suggest how I might DW>programmtically send a PDF to a printer once I've generated it in DW>Perl/mod_perl? Use either Ghostscript or Adobe Acrobat Reader to convert to Postscript, then print in your normal manner (if you usually use Ghostscript

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-19 Thread David Wheeler
On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 16:01:24, Drew Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can highly recommend PDFLib. It's not quite free in that you have to buy > a license if you make a product out of it, but it's still cheap. Matt > Sergeant has recently added an OO interface over the PDFLib functions with >

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-12 Thread Robin Berjon
On Wednesday 03 April 2002 22:43, Bill McCabe wrote: > I have a large number of mod_perl modules that connect to various databases > and generate workflow performance reports for my organization. I give the > users 3 output options: HTML, Excel (Spreadsheet::WriteExcel), and PDF. For > PDF output

RE: PDF generation

2002-04-08 Thread Jeff
help take it further. Regards Jeff -Original Message- From: Thomas Eibner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 April 2002 13:47 To: modperl Subject: Re: PDF generation On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:32:58PM +0200, Patrick wrote: > Few seconds, at least for my cases (and by doing PUSHs to

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-08 Thread Thomas Eibner
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

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-08 Thread Patrick
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 07:51:42PM +0200, Thomas Eibner took time to write: > > More precisely I have LaTeX templates, I use CGI::FastTemplate to > > fill them in with dynamic data, run pdflatex, and then have a nice > > PDF file. > > Sounds like an interesting solution, but how long does it take

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-07 Thread Thomas Eibner
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:11:39AM +0200, Patrick wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:43:39PM -0500, Bill McCabe took time to write: > > I have a large number of mod_perl modules that connect to various databases and > > generate workflow performance reports for my organization. I give the users 3

Re: PDF generation (fwd)

2002-04-06 Thread Jim Willis
I have had a tremendous amount of success with htmldoc. see: http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/ (it's gpl'd and has fairly decent documentation). not a module, but can be easily called from cgi-bin, etc and handles formatting really well. you design your output in html and pass it to htmldoc and o

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-06 Thread Patrick
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:43:39PM -0500, Bill McCabe took time to write: > I have a large number of mod_perl modules that connect to various databases and > generate workflow performance reports for my organization. I give the users 3 > output options: HTML, Excel (Spreadsheet::WriteExcel), and P

RE: PDF generation

2002-04-04 Thread Bill McCabe
On 4/4/02 at 1:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wilson, Allen) wrote: > In reference to PDF::Create... > > Has anyone found any good documentation behind the module... > > I would like to print the results of a query to PDF and I not exactly > sure whether I can use an array or a concatenate the resul

RE: PDF generation

2002-04-04 Thread Wilson, Allen
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:39 AM To: Mike808 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PDF generation Mike808 wrote: > Don't know if you can run a JServ+mod_perl or JPerl hybrid, though. You can, but it would be the biggest memory hog every create

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-04 Thread Graham TerMarsch
On April 3, 2002 12:43 pm, Bill McCabe wrote: > I have a large number of mod_perl modules that connect to various > databases and generate workflow performance reports for my organization. > I give the users 3 output options: HTML, Excel > (Spreadsheet::WriteExcel), and PDF. For PDF output I've be

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-04 Thread Perrin Harkins
Mike808 wrote: > Don't know if you can run a JServ+mod_perl or JPerl hybrid, though. You can, but it would be the biggest memory hog every created, since it would be running a JVM in addition to the Perl interpreters. - Perrin

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-03 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Mike808 wrote: > Don't know if you can run a JServ+mod_perl or JPerl hybrid, though. You can certainly run Java on one server and mod_perl on another, I do this routinely in production. (With mod_perl on the FRONT end... :) 73, Ged.

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-03 Thread Mike808
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I also have used html2ps and ps2pdf to make this > transition as well using ImageMagick ( > http://www.imagemagick.org/ ). > > Its a really nice approache since it essentially makes the > sky the limit on your PDF presentation. We did an HR > process for a company once

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-03 Thread Kurt Hansen
Hi y'all, >> At 3:43 PM -0500 4/3/02, Bill McCabe wrote: > >output options: HTML, Excel (Spreadsheet::WriteExcel), and PDF. For PDF output > >I've been using PDF::Create, which has been at version .01 since 1999. It has > >worked flawlessly for my purposes for a couple of years, but is very > >l

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-03 Thread Robert Landrum
At 3:43 PM -0500 4/3/02, Bill McCabe wrote: >Hi All > >I have a large number of mod_perl modules that connect to various >databases and >generate workflow performance reports for my organization. I give the users 3 >output options: HTML, Excel (Spreadsheet::WriteExcel), and PDF. For PDF output >I

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-03 Thread Drew Taylor
I can highly recommend PDFLib. It's not quite free in that you have to buy a license if you make a product out of it, but it's still cheap. Matt Sergeant has recently added an OO interface over the PDFLib functions with PDFLib. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=PDFLib There are others that wi

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-03 Thread siberian
I have used the HTMLtoPDF converter from htmldoc ( http://www.os2site.com/sw/util/convert/ ) with great success. I also have used html2ps and ps2pdf to make this transition as well using ImageMagick ( http://www.imagemagick.org/ ). Its a really nice approache since it essentially makes the

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-03 Thread Thomas Eibner
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:43:39PM -0500, Bill McCabe wrote: > Hi All > > I have a large number of mod_perl modules that connect to various databases and > generate workflow performance reports for my organization. I give the users 3 > output options: HTML, Excel (Spreadsheet::WriteExcel), and PD