From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 8:24: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw2.roguewave.com (fw2.roguewave.com [208.151.233.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 587D614C12 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 08:24:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from carey@roguewave.com) Received: by fw2.roguewave.com; id IAA10091; Wed, 12 May 1999 08:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cvo1.cvo.roguewave.com(10.68.4.36) via SMTP by hub.FreeBSD.ORG, id smtpd010040; Wed May 12 08:17:17 1999 Received: by cvo1.cvo.roguewave.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) id ; Wed, 12 May 1999 08:24:25 -0700 Message-ID: From: Woody Carey To: "'Randy A. Katz'" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Formatting Print Output - FreeBSD Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 08:24:22 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Use perl, like you suggested. Grab the data, stuff it into a LaTeX file, and then use latex to get a *.dvi file, dvips to get a *.ps file, and lp to print out the resulting postscript. > > Hi, > > No-one had any ideas on this??? > > > Hello, > > I want to create documents like invoices, statements from my > FreeBSD box. I > want to include a logo, font styles, size changes, and > perhaps a few shaded > boxes. > > How would I do this using PERL which gets the data from the > database? Are > there any print formatting utilities which can be scripted to? > > Please help, > Randy Katz > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message