[Klug-general] Document Production

[Peter Childs]

On 14 February 2011 16:26, David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com> wrote:

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

Yes Print, Its not really web based, but PDF is the format cups works in.
Its template based (in this case Invoices) basically I need to put loads of
"data" on to "forms"


>
> 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)
>
>
Yep that's it, nothing unusual there.


> 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.
>


This issue is html does not work well on paper..... as you suggest latex
works well for latex like docs and not much else, I'm wondering if I can do
the job with something like iText.....

Would use ODF if ODF came with a light weight method to print it (other than
loading the whole bloat of OpenOffice)

Peter.



> 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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