On 06-Sep-01 Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
Somebody should (hopefully many ;-) ) come to my website and order something. After he has paid via credit card, I would like to make a downloadable invoice in pdf format. The info for the invoice will come from different database tables, according to the purchase. It also includes the company logo and a chop or signature.
I want to use pdf format, because it is independent from the users OS.
This sounds like a job which 'groff' would do well.
Extract the data from your database, run it past an 'awk'
script to create a troff source file with the formatting
tags embedded, run 'groff' to produce a PostScript output
file, then run 'ps2pdf' to make the PDF file. All in one
batch script.
If that outline isn't enough to get you started, drop me
a line off-list and I can probably help you on your way.
Ted.
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