[Klug-general] Document Production

[David Halliday]

What is your document produced from?
Do you need to output to PDF/print specifically?

Presumably an automatically produced document will contain:
logo,
boilerplate text,
Perhaps a custom paragraph (or mixture of them),
Table of data (perhaps from a database or other location)

If this is the case then any (scripting) language you like can take the
input and mix it with logo/boilerplate text and template file and spit the
output to a file (in any mark-up you like). Then you just need to render
that mark-up and print it.

If you particularly want to print something that looks like a latex document
then you can use latex, otherwise you might be better off producing HTML or
any other mark-up language you are familiar with.

On 14 February 2011 16:15, Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org> wrote:

> I'm looking for a method of automatically producing documents.
>
> Latex looks like the ideal option, but I really would like a good GUI and
> I'm afraid most of the GUI don't produce Tex but produce there own format
> that then gets converted to Tex. And I want more control over actual output
> than Latex really provides. (Unless there is some way of providing a style
> sheet to Latex to get it right)
>
> I could do the job in odf but OpenOffice is too bloated to print the
> documents in bulk, If there was  a odf2pdf cups filter so cups can just
> print odf (Says he having checked cups already)....
>
> Or I need something else,
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Peter.
>
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