generating PDF's via code - looking for ideas

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

On 09/30/2010 11:54 AM, list user wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to generate a PDF report based on a set of data in
> a database and a set of pre-generated graphs via some sort of procedural
> method based on a template.
...
> method. So, I'm looking for a way to generate PDF's straight away as
> described above. Anyone have any ideas?

We use perl scripts to generate an html file, which is easy to do.

Then we convert the html to PDF on-the-fly with htmldoc.

It actually works quite well.


- Mike