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

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