RE: [OT] pdf creation

2001-10-31 Thread Steve Smith
simran writes: I believe there is also a Content-disposition tag you can use to tell the browser what to name the file... As mentioned below in my original post, it doesn't work in all browsers. Steve

Re: [OT] pdf creation

2001-10-31 Thread Wim Kerkhoff
Steve Smith wrote: simran writes: I believe there is also a Content-disposition tag you can use to tell the browser what to name the file... As mentioned below in my original post, it doesn't work in all browsers. Like you say, PATH_INFO works for many browsers. I ran into issues

RE: [OT] pdf creation

2001-10-29 Thread Matt Sergeant
-Original Message- From: Lon Koenig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I apologize for the OT post, but the members of this list seem to be authoritive resource for all web/perl solutions. I'm currently bidding a project, and the client's all in favor of a mod_perl solution. Phase 2

Re: [OT] pdf creation

2001-10-29 Thread Dave Baker
Does anyone have success/horror stories generating pdf files under mod_perl? Recommendations? No horror stories except trying to go about it the wrong way a few times and ended up with multi-hundred megabyte TIFF files as intermediate steps. I ended up using htmldoc (http://www.easysw.com)

Re: [OT] pdf creation

2001-10-29 Thread Mike808
Dave Baker wrote: I ended up using htmldoc (http://www.easysw.com) which does html-pdf in a breeze (as well as html-ps). So does HTML2PS, which is also GPL'd, and written in 100% Perl. Ghostscript or the Acrobat reader can do the PS2PDF output. See http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html

RE: [OT] pdf creation

2001-10-29 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Matt, do you have a plan to release PDFLib.pm ? Oleg On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Matt Sergeant wrote: -Original Message- From: Lon Koenig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I apologize for the OT post, but the members of this list seem to be authoritive resource for all web/perl

RE: [OT] pdf creation

2001-10-29 Thread Matt Sergeant
It's on CPAN already. -Original Message- From: Oleg Bartunov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 October 2001 09:40 To: Matt Sergeant Cc: 'Lon Koenig'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OT] pdf creation Matt, do you have a plan to release PDFLib.pm

[OT] pdf creation

2001-10-28 Thread Lon Koenig
I apologize for the OT post, but the members of this list seem to be authoritive resource for all web/perl solutions. I'm currently bidding a project, and the client's all in favor of a mod_perl solution. Phase 2 of the project requires on-the-fly pdf creation. I've done page layout in other

Re: [OT] pdf creation

2001-10-28 Thread Steve Smith
Does anyone have success/horror stories generating pdf files under mod_perl? Recommendations? I recently built a customer billing system system that generated PDF invoices using Latex + Template-Toolkit. See http://template-toolkit.org/docs/blue/Manual/Filters.html This was an backend

Re: [OT] pdf creation

2001-10-28 Thread Drew Taylor
At 04:01 PM 10/28/2001 -0600, Lon Koenig wrote: I apologize for the OT post, but the members of this list seem to be authoritive resource for all web/perl solutions. I'm currently bidding a project, and the client's all in favor of a mod_perl solution. Phase 2 of the project requires

Re: [OT] pdf creation

2001-10-28 Thread John Armstrong
I once did a project using html2pdf under Unix. It worked great for converting the Human Resources forms ( in html ) to printable PDF's that contained variable user information. Worked well and did not cause any real trouble. John- On Sunday, October 28, 2001, at 04:29 PM, Drew Taylor wrote: