generating PDF's via code - looking for ideas

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Thu Sep 30 17:21:31 UTC 2010


On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, 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.

One can generate postscript with printf.
In the pre-pdf days,
that was how I made the diagrams for my masters thesis.
genps | ps2pdf > output.pdf

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