On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Rodos wrote:
> I am wanting to write a small/quick/kiss quote/invoice system that outputs
> PDF files.
...
> Hoping to knock it over in a night. Writing the glue in Perl, just need a
> layout language. I don't think HTML will cut it.
Well I did some hunting and the choices came out at LPU, Groff, LaTex,
Postscript and Lout.
The winner seams to be Lout. It has the complex table formating which I
required, a little bit of graphics, a little bit of colour and you can
insert graphics. It was also written by an Australian at the University of
Sydney.
If you are after a tool to write Postscipt check it out. It has great
documentation and is very quick to get started.
http://snark.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/lout/lout.html
Once I have some forms being created I will post a link so you can see the
results.
Rodos
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