Benjamin D. Smedberg wrote:

> Kai Ruhnau wrote:
>> If someone can and wants to give me a hint:
>> I'm looking for a file-format, that I can automatically create, that I can
>> use to output print-, browser- and other-viewable pages, that can be
>> converted to pdf, so that I can sign this pdf and send it via E-Mail.
>> 
>> Html at first glance seemed for me as a hot candidate. But as far as I know
>> html it is not good for printing several pages with "nice" headers, footers,
>> page numbers etc.
>> Currently we try to do it with LaTeX. If we had time I know we should use
>> something like XML+XMS...
> 
> What's wrong with LaTeX?  There are LaTeX->html converters, and of 
> course the PDF converters, etc... it seems like a good solution to me.

It was our desinger who mumbled something around "old-fashioned style". But
as you said: The output converters are exacly what I need and we did some
great steps towards presentable documents today.
 
> Other possible solutions include docbook.

I'll have a look at that, thanks.

> HTML+CSS theoretically has the facilities you desire, but most CSS 
> engines don't really support all of the fancy print-formatting CSS like 
> fixed-position headers and footers, etc.

It's a pitty. What about mozilla? ;)

> --BDS

Greetings
Kai

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