From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 14: 8:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D091504D for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 14:08:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA15505; Thu, 13 May 1999 09:02:29 +1200 (NZST) Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 09:02:29 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen 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 On Wed, 12 May 1999, Randy A. Katz wrote: > 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? We use a a program to extract the data, and autogenerate a usable LaTeX file; which is then compiled with latex to produce a dvi file; which is then printed with dvilj on our HP printers. No matter how you look at it, there's quite a bit of work involved. Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!" - Curly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message