Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 15:25:00 +0300 From: Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> To: "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Formatting Print Output - FreeBSD Message-ID: <3738219C.180984F7@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> References: <3.0.5.32.19990510204124.0355fcc0@ccsales.com>
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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?
>
Exixts 2 common ways for this problem:
1. generate documents in TeX
(may be nroff/troff is good way for you too, it's depend from what
you need)
2. in HTML or RTF then use some HTML viewer/editor for printing.
About perl: look at CPAN perl modules, I believe you can find something
there.
> Please help,
> Randy Katz
>
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