[Gllug] PDF creation

Jose Luis Martinez jjllmmss at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 25 15:21:35 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Peter Childs<peterachilds at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/24 Martin N Stevens <budgester at budgester.com>:
>> 2009/6/24 Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk>:
>>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:21:30AM +0100, John Winters wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:08:06 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton
>>>> <james.dutton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> [snip]
>>>> > 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.
>>>>
>>>> Can you provide any pointers on how to get started using OOo in a headless
>>>> way?  I don't think I've come across any clues about how to do it and it
>>>> could be useful.
>>>
>>> +1
>>
>> Yes this sounds very interesting
>
> Linux Format have been doing a series of articles on how to automating
> bits of OOo.
>


This month's issue (August 2009) has an article that outlines how all
this is done.
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