A buddy of mine has created an interesting utility that might fill a need for some folks.
Basically, for producing reports his utility takes an xml file that you generate (which follows his specs), passes it thru a command line utility and produces a PDF file. This utility doesn't need the 'pdflib' utility (which I understand costs a lot of money).
Check it out at http://www.x2p.us
Please note that he is hoping that this fills a niche and does expect that if you use it you will license it (i.e. purchase it) so his demo does include a "demo" watermark.
He wrote this when he needed to produce PDF documents for one of his customers where they wanted to replace custom preprinted forms (i.e. expensive forms) and the language he uses (PROGRESS .. I work for em) did not directly do what he needed to do. The docs are for PROGRESS (and I think VB) but generating an XML file should be a piece of cake for Transcript programmers. Right now it works (as far as I know) on Windows and maybe Unix. I am bugging him on getting it running on OS X as that is what I am using.
Cheers, Brian
Please note that I have nothing to do with this utility other than the fact that I like it, find it useful and want to help him get the word out.
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