Hi Blake, great to hear! Always nice to hear another Troff success story. =)
I know the feeling about finding decent PDF converters. The best one I know of is wkhtmltopdf <https://wkhtmltopdf.org/>, which uses WebKit's rendering engine to convert an HTML/CSS-enriched webpage into a correctly-layered and paged PDF. Tables looked great and scaled perfectly across pages. I strongly recommend wkhtmltopdf <https://wkhtmltopdf.org/> to anybody else who finds themselves in need of a decent HTML-to-PDF converter. On 25 July 2018 at 03:26, Blake McBride <bl...@mcbride.name> wrote: > A few years ago I thought of a really, really good use for groff and tbl. > Thought I'd share. > > I write (web-based) business applications. Often I have to generate > reports which largely mean PDF files. In the past, I used some open-source > PDF generation utilities. They worked, but what a nightmare! Handling > paging and lining everything up took hours. > > Then, a few years ago, I thought of generating groff/tbl input instead and > then calling those tools to generate the final PDF output. This made my > ability to produce reports skyrocket. I have a deep love of troff but > don't get to use it as much as I'd like. Now I'll be using it all of the > time. > > This is a great use of groff et al. I will be using it all of the time > now! > > Blake McBride >
