Dave Cross wrote: > Mark Schoonover wrote: >> Thanks for Reading! >> >> I have a need to output PDF. Right now I use PDFLib, but am >> looking for a way to use TT to generate the PDFs I need. I'm not >> sure exactly how I'd do this, but here's the info I need in PDF >> format. Basically, it's a couple jpeg images, with text describing >> the images on each page. Nothing complex. My initial thoughts were >> to create an HTML template, convert that to PS, then to PDF, but I'm >> not sure HTML will give me the flexibility of precise layout... If >> anyone would like to see an example, I can email that to you. > > Mark, > > I do this by creating LaTeX and then using the latex filter with the > "pdf" output type. > > http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/plain/Manual/Filters.html#latex_outputT ype_ > > Another (in my mind harder but perhaps more flexible) approach would > be to create XSL-FO output and run it through something like fop. > > Dave...
Thanks Dave. Don't know anything about LaTeX, but that's easy to fix! So, in a nutshell, it looks like I create a LaTeX page with what I need, then TT will magically convert it to PDF?? Mark ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ templates mailing list [email protected] http://lists.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates
