On 2006-06-02 @ 07:57:31 (week 22) Bill Moseley wrote: > A bit off topic, but what methods are people using to get nicely > printed output? > > For example, I currently export to csv which is is used with MS Word > in a merge to generate things like labels and name tags. It would be > nicer to just generate a pdf, for example. > > Also have a need to generate good looking invoices. > > And big invoices, too, but that's another issue.
Hi Bill, Normally I generate DocBook XML from my TT2 templates. From there on you can use the usual XSL tools to create just about any format you want. However the learning curve to go that way might be a bit too much for your situation (can't tell how much effort is warranted from what you wrote). It takes some time to learn, but once you have you are awarded with a lot of freedom and flexibility. If you are working with XHTML and CSS you could use Prince (http://www.princexml.com/). It is not cheap ($349 for a personal license), but it works like a charm. If CSS support is not necessary you could try HTMLDoc as well (http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/). That's a nice tool too, but it lacks decent CSS support. As I understand it sometime in the future it will get it, but they have been saying that for ages now without any noticable progress... HTH Grx HdV _______________________________________________ templates mailing list [email protected] http://lists.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates
