Re: PDF generation

2002-04-20 Thread David Wheeler
On 4/19/02 10:33 PM, Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] claimed: If your end goal is PS, better generated PS in first place. From my experience ps - pdf - ps, makes the final PS a much bigger file (5-10 times bigger). I use html2ps for generating PS files (used for generating the mod_perl

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-19 Thread David Wheeler
On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 16:01:24, Drew Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can highly recommend PDFLib. It's not quite free in that you have to buy a license if you make a product out of it, but it's still cheap. Matt Sergeant has recently added an OO interface over the PDFLib functions with

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-19 Thread Sam Tregar
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Andrew Ho wrote: DWThis looks pretty good to me. Can anyone suggest how I might DWprogrammtically send a PDF to a printer once I've generated it in DWPerl/mod_perl? Use either Ghostscript or Adobe Acrobat Reader to convert to Postscript, then print in your normal

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-19 Thread Stas Bekman
Andrew Ho wrote: Hello, DWThis looks pretty good to me. Can anyone suggest how I might DWprogrammtically send a PDF to a printer once I've generated it in DWPerl/mod_perl? Use either Ghostscript or Adobe Acrobat Reader to convert to Postscript, then print in your normal manner (if you

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-12 Thread Robin Berjon
On Wednesday 03 April 2002 22:43, Bill McCabe wrote: I have a large number of mod_perl modules that connect to various databases and generate workflow performance reports for my organization. I give the users 3 output options: HTML, Excel (Spreadsheet::WriteExcel), and PDF. For PDF output

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-08 Thread Patrick
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 07:51:42PM +0200, Thomas Eibner took time to write: More precisely I have LaTeX templates, I use CGI::FastTemplate to fill them in with dynamic data, run pdflatex, and then have a nice PDF file. Sounds like an interesting solution, but how long does it take to

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-08 Thread Thomas Eibner
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:32:58PM +0200, Patrick wrote: Few seconds, at least for my cases (and by doing PUSHs to the Web client it let it know exactly where we are at the generation). Okay, that sounds bareable. You should also consider, if possible, to generate files in advance of use.

RE: PDF generation

2002-04-08 Thread Jeff
take it further. Regards Jeff -Original Message- From: Thomas Eibner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 April 2002 13:47 To: modperl Subject: Re: PDF generation On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:32:58PM +0200, Patrick wrote: Few seconds, at least for my cases (and by doing PUSHs to the Web

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-07 Thread Thomas Eibner
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:11:39AM +0200, Patrick wrote: On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:43:39PM -0500, Bill McCabe took time to write: I have a large number of mod_perl modules that connect to various databases and generate workflow performance reports for my organization. I give the users 3

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-06 Thread Patrick
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:43:39PM -0500, Bill McCabe took time to write: I have a large number of mod_perl modules that connect to various databases and generate workflow performance reports for my organization. I give the users 3 output options: HTML, Excel (Spreadsheet::WriteExcel), and

Re: PDF generation (fwd)

2002-04-06 Thread Jim Willis
I have had a tremendous amount of success with htmldoc. see: http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/ (it's gpl'd and has fairly decent documentation). not a module, but can be easily called from cgi-bin, etc and handles formatting really well. you design your output in html and pass it to htmldoc and

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-04 Thread Perrin Harkins
Mike808 wrote: Don't know if you can run a JServ+mod_perl or JPerl hybrid, though. You can, but it would be the biggest memory hog every created, since it would be running a JVM in addition to the Perl interpreters. - Perrin

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-04 Thread Graham TerMarsch
On April 3, 2002 12:43 pm, Bill McCabe wrote: I have a large number of mod_perl modules that connect to various databases and generate workflow performance reports for my organization. I give the users 3 output options: HTML, Excel (Spreadsheet::WriteExcel), and PDF. For PDF output I've been

RE: PDF generation

2002-04-04 Thread Wilson, Allen
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:39 AM To: Mike808 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PDF generation Mike808 wrote: Don't know if you can run a JServ+mod_perl or JPerl hybrid, though. You can, but it would be the biggest memory hog every created, since

RE: PDF generation

2002-04-04 Thread Bill McCabe
On 4/4/02 at 1:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wilson, Allen) wrote: In reference to PDF::Create... Has anyone found any good documentation behind the module... I would like to print the results of a query to PDF and I not exactly sure whether I can use an array or a concatenate the results in

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-03 Thread Thomas Eibner
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:43:39PM -0500, Bill McCabe wrote: Hi All I have a large number of mod_perl modules that connect to various databases and generate workflow performance reports for my organization. I give the users 3 output options: HTML, Excel (Spreadsheet::WriteExcel), and PDF.

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-03 Thread siberian
I have used the HTMLtoPDF converter from htmldoc ( http://www.os2site.com/sw/util/convert/ ) with great success. I also have used html2ps and ps2pdf to make this transition as well using ImageMagick ( http://www.imagemagick.org/ ). Its a really nice approache since it essentially makes

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-03 Thread Drew Taylor
I can highly recommend PDFLib. It's not quite free in that you have to buy a license if you make a product out of it, but it's still cheap. Matt Sergeant has recently added an OO interface over the PDFLib functions with PDFLib. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=PDFLib There are others that

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-03 Thread Robert Landrum
At 3:43 PM -0500 4/3/02, Bill McCabe wrote: Hi All I have a large number of mod_perl modules that connect to various databases and generate workflow performance reports for my organization. I give the users 3 output options: HTML, Excel (Spreadsheet::WriteExcel), and PDF. For PDF output I've

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-03 Thread Kurt Hansen
Hi y'all, At 3:43 PM -0500 4/3/02, Bill McCabe wrote: output options: HTML, Excel (Spreadsheet::WriteExcel), and PDF. For PDF output I've been using PDF::Create, which has been at version .01 since 1999. It has worked flawlessly for my purposes for a couple of years, but is very limited.

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-03 Thread Mike808
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have used html2ps and ps2pdf to make this transition as well using ImageMagick ( http://www.imagemagick.org/ ). Its a really nice approache since it essentially makes the sky the limit on your PDF presentation. We did an HR process for a company once where

Re: PDF generation

2002-04-03 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Mike808 wrote: Don't know if you can run a JServ+mod_perl or JPerl hybrid, though. You can certainly run Java on one server and mod_perl on another, I do this routinely in production. (With mod_perl on the FRONT end... :) 73, Ged.