From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 6:18:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iserver.itworks.com.au (iserver.itworks.com.au [203.32.61.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC93514FFC for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 06:18:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gavin@itworks.com.au) Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by iserver.itworks.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA04618; Wed, 12 May 1999 23:18:27 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from gavin@itworks.com.au) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:18:27 +1000 (EST) From: Gavin Cameron To: "Randy A. Katz" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Formatting Print Output - FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990512061346.032a63b0@ccsales.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, You could use Perl to talk to your database and to write a TeX/LaTeX document that you could then run through tex/latex and then a dvi to whatever filter. Gavin []-----------------------------------+------------------------------------[] | Gavin Cameron | ITworks Consulting | | Ph : +61 3 9667 0297 | Suite 100, 85 Grattan Street | | Fax : +61 3 9347 6544 | Carlton, Victoria | | Email : gavin@itworks.com.au | Australia, 3053 | []-----------------------------------+------------------------------------[] On Wed, 12 May 1999, Randy A. Katz wrote: > Hi, > > No-one had any ideas on this??? > > > Hello, > > I want to create documents like invoices, statements from my FreeBSD box. I > want to include a logo, font styles, size changes, and perhaps a few shaded > boxes. > > How would I do this using PERL which gets the data from the database? Are > there any print formatting utilities which can be scripted to? > > Please help, > Randy Katz > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message