Stuart Johnston wrote:
Bill Moseley wrote:
A bit off topic, but what methods are people using to get nicely
printed output?
LaTeX (see yesterday's thread)
XSL-FO (Apache FOP (Java))
PDF::ReportWriter (particular good for invoices and similar reports)
PDF::API2
Hi Bill,
In addition to this list by Stuart, HTMLDoc is pretty slick to use. It allows
you to convert HTML 3.2/4.0 to PDF, so you can create whatever HTML you want,
and then use HTMLDoc to make a PDF. It probably doesn't give you as clean of a
PDF as the others, but it sure as heck is easy. (It's probably more resource
intensive as well.) Writing HTML is a lot easier than dealing with LaTeX and
its quirks. (Yes, we use that, but also HTMLDoc for some things. These days I
would try HTMLDoc first, since it is so much easier to use.) Just create a TT
filter to do the work, and call it good.
http://www.htmldoc.org/
There is an example PDF-o-matic page too that you can do a quick test on. Input
a page url and it will spit out a PDF.
http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/examples.php
It doesn't support all HTML stuff, but is good enough for most things. CSS
support does not exist in the stable 1.8.x series, but is being added in the
1.9.x version I believe. However, I wouldn't count on that coming out for a
while since development seems to have halted to a snail's pace. Also, if using
utf-8 you may need to change encoding into cp1252 or iso-8859-1 since utf-8
isn't supported in the 1.8.x series. (No big deal, though, since the Perl
Encode module makes it easy.)
-- Josh
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