Hi, Depending on your level of expertise, and time constraints involved I might suggest that for an input as simple as line oriented reports would easily be transformed into a custom designed report by way of rolling your own PostScript.
Steps. Pick a language to process the text (I'd even be comfortable with PostScript parsing the input >:) Pick up a copy of this http://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf and optionally, this http://www.rightbrain.com/pages/book-download.shtmlshould you need a softer introduction. Pattern matching or setting rules for fixed length record positions on input would allow you to customise font, colour etc and you can draw your own illustrations or borders. Page overflow is quite simple also, store your coordinates and increment the y axis as you scoll move down the page. check before incrementing y that y will not exceed a comfortable margin, if it does then `showpage'. Sorry for the non a2ps solution, but it's what I'd be inclined to do to gain additional flexibility. Jeff On 6/15/07, Seth Rothenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Greetings, I searched the archive, found some stuff that's useful but not yet exactly what I am looking for. I have been charged with taking some reports that were designed to be line-printed in landscape (i.e., 132 characters wide), and magically get them into tiff in portrait format....so they can be viewed by a Medical Coder in another location. It's a good thing I believe in Open Source. I have been using a command like a2ps -1 -l132 -ooutput.ps output then gs -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=output.tiff output.ps What I get is very close, but needs fine-tuning. I need a document that can be viewed on the screen for doing data entry. So, I need to make this report a bit easier to read. Ideas: -bold - ( um, I found this in the docs, did it once, lost it....will search again :-) -interline spacing - makes it easier to pick out data (I saw something for this in the docs for enscript, but I don't think that's a better tool) -eliminate all headers/trailers (like --noheaders) -eliminate borders so font can be bigger (have not found this yet). Switching font may be helpful, eg, an Arial.....but I haven't figured that out yet. I would appreciate any pointers to more detailed examples (on web or even a book). Thanks Seth
