Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 15:25:00 +0300 From: Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> To: "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Formatting Print Output - FreeBSD Message-ID: <3738219C.180984F7@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> References: <3.0.5.32.19990510204124.0355fcc0@ccsales.com>
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Randy A. Katz wrote: > > 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? > Exixts 2 common ways for this problem: 1. generate documents in TeX (may be nroff/troff is good way for you too, it's depend from what you need) 2. in HTML or RTF then use some HTML viewer/editor for printing. About perl: look at CPAN perl modules, I believe you can find something there. > 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
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