From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Apr 29 8: 3:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ext-nj2gw-2.online-age.net (ext-nj2gw-2.online-age.net [216.35.73.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FE3637B425 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08:02:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from int-nj2gw-4.online-age.net (int-nj2gw-4 [3.159.236.68]) by ext-nj2gw-2.online-age.net (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1/990426-RLH) with ESMTP id LAA04517; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:02:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from crdns.crd.ge.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by int-nj2gw-4.online-age.net (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1/990426-RLH) with ESMTP id LAA15232; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:02:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from exc01crdge.crd.ge.com (exc01crdge.crd.ge.com [3.1.116.47]) by crdns.crd.ge.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3TF2jI22947; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:02:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: by exc01crdge.crd.ge.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:02:44 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Lapinski, Michael (Research)" To: "'Jorge Biquez'" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: PDF's and advice on fee pls. Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:02:41 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I know for a fact you can rig up somethign to go from cgi-> latex -> ps/pdf Use the cgi to generate a latex doc and use pdflatex to generate the pdf. User auth can be against a 1 table mysqldb. Possibly even a perl library that will do cgi-> ps/pdf. Developing the initial form might be a pain to do but once you have it all you do is replace different fields. -mtl -------------------------------------------------- Michael Lapinski Computer Scientist GE Corporate Research & Development "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943 -----Original Message----- From: Jorge Biquez [mailto:jbiquez@icsmx.com] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:43 AM To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: PDF's and advice on fee pls. Hello all. I have two question for you. Thanks in advance. a) A prospect of client is asking me to develop an application that validate users against a database, after validation they could fill some forms, depending on status , group and data returned by the validation. After they fill the form a PDF has to be created on the fly and sent by email to the client and his/her sale advisor. Any tips on where to start? I mean the PDF part. Tools, language to use? The client don't care the language or platform to use. He can change to whatever gave him the solution. Oh, the PDF is kind of complex as well as the form to fill. b) I have not been working on my own on projects like this for a while. How much would you say this project is worth? How would you charge it? per hours? per project?. The project includes to configure and setup the platform and software chosen for the project. As always thanks in advance for all your help. Jorge Biquez To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message