François, thanks for this idea.  I have Quartam PDF but there are
situations where I can imagine using your idea.  It may not be what
Richmond wants, but it is quite ingenious.

Bernard

2009/8/7 François Chaplais <[email protected]>:
> From one of you previous posts, I understood that you wanted to turn the
> content of a field into PDF. Since PDF is a bit too complicated to produce
> from scratch, what I propose is to
>
> a) translate the HTMLtext of the field into a page description language
> which
> b) can easily produce PDF without writing extra code
>
> LaTeX can do that, it is freeware, it has a large community of users, and
> runs on Mac OS X (and 7.x etc..), windows and linux.
> You could also output an HTML file and print from a browser, or use RTF and
> produce PDF (with applescript, probably, or VB)
> (La)TeX is a professional typesetting environment, and has been around since
> the early 80's; more info in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
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