[thelist] Generating PDFs in CGI

[Garrett Coakley]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:03:44 -0400, "deke " <web at master.gen.in.us>
wrote:

> Is generating PDFs *directly* such a bear that I ought to take this
> approach?  (FWIW, I was planning to write this in C, but doing it in
> PERL is not a problem if there is a good reason.)

deke, check out HTMLDoc:

http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/

It's a *nix/Win32 program (GPL'd) that can generate PDF's or PS from
HTML source files. You can use it server side, commandline or through a
GUI. We've just finished developing some documentation for a client with
it, and it was an absoulte breeze.

G.

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