Off topic, ... how to create a pdf file?
I simple don't know where to ask, but it should work on the SuSE web server: 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. Can anybody give me a hint where to start ??? Thanks! bye Ronald Ronald Wiplinger (ÃQ¤¯¯Ç), CEO, ELMIT - The Solution Provider Tel. +886 2 8809-7980, Fax. +886 2 2809-0183, Mobile: +886 915 653-452 Net2Phone:8869550066, ICQ: 111651169 http://www.elmit.com http://www.wiplinger.org
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.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
E-Mail: (Ted Harding)
Il 20:16, giovedì 6 settembre 2001, Ronald Wiplinger ha scritto:
I simple don't know where to ask, but it should work on the SuSE web server:
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.
Can anybody give me a hint where to start ???
Thanks!
bye
Ronald
Have a look at ps2pdf. It may be useful to you. Tazio
On Thursday 06 September 2001 03:32 pm, Praise wrote:
Il 20:16, giovedì 6 settembre 2001, Ronald Wiplinger ha scritto:
I simple don't know where to ask, but it should work on the SuSE web server:
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.
Can anybody give me a hint where to start ???
Thanks!
bye
Ronald
Have a look at ps2pdf. It may be useful to you.
Tazio
If you are in KDE2, you can print the file to a PDF file. Good luck, Steven -- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Steven Hatfield http://www.knightswood.net Registered Linux User #220336 ICQ: 7314105 Useless Machine Data: Running SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional and KDE2.2 3:37pm up 5:16, 1 user, load average: 0.40, 0.76, 0.51 -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Random Quote: There's more than one way to skin a cat. Number 15: Krazy Glue and a toothbrush.
On Thursday 06 September 2001 03:32 pm, Praise wrote:
Have a look at ps2pdf. It may be useful to you.
If you've got a plaintext report output, you can use a2ps (ASCII to PostScript) to convert it to a PostScript file, then use ps2pdf to make a PDF from that. I do this on my machine to make mailing labels, because a2ps has a multiple- pages-per-sheet printing feature that's really cool. Scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------ "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds, in the NY Times Scott Courtney http://www.4th.com/
Ronald, If you want to do something really fancy then I suggest using python and reportlab to create your pdf files. Of course this is a fairly involved process, but depending on the size of your businesss it might be worth the investment. see www.reportlab.com for details If you need Jethro
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. Look in the PHP reference if you are using Apache. I saw a whole section on PDF creation. I don't know if it is easy to use vs the other options of converting text to PDF, but it would keep it all within PHP. Greg Engel
participants (7)
-
genge1 -
Jethro Cramp -
Praise -
Ronald Wiplinger -
Scott Courtney -
Steven Hatfield -
Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk