[Gllug] PDF creation

[James Courtier-Dutton]

2009/6/24 t.clarke <tim at seacon.co.uk>:
> Hi
>
> has anyone any experience of any programs to take a basic text file and
> 'overlay' it over a template to create a PDF file?
>
> Currently we print invoices on pre-printed forms,  but need on occasions to
> email copies of invoices to customers.  The basic text of the invoices are
> retained on disc and we can easily email the plain text, but ideally we would
> like to be able to generate the whole invoice including the invoice framework
> and headings as a pdf.
>
> I have taken a look at txt2pdf on the sanface.com website, but the documentation
> thereon does not seem to indicate whether or not it is capable of doing what I
> want,  or indeed how to do it!
>
> Tim
>

I would use openoffice, headless, with a script to do all the mail
merge type job you need to do, with the result being .pdf docs.
In the past I have used openoffice to convert 100s of .doc files to
.pdf automatically.
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