On 1/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dan Martin</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:ummar143@cc.umanitoba.ca">ummar143@cc.umanitoba.ca</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The display could be done with XHTML.&nbsp;&nbsp;The printed forms could be done<br>using LaTeX commands, but I imagine it would be painful to program.&nbsp;&nbsp;I<br>could learn postscript.&nbsp;&nbsp;I assume Acrobat&#39;s pdf is proprietary and<br>
cannot be used.&nbsp;&nbsp;I have heard of an XML based page layout language, and<br>such a solution would lend itself to an XSLT transformation.</blockquote><div><br><br>PDF is a published&nbsp; specification, there are several good perl and php libraries for working with it (I recall reading that Adobe is seeking standards approval for it, too).&nbsp; I&#39;d recommend against PostScript, while it is fun (especially if you had an HP-48 calculator at some point) it&#39;s a pain if you want to get away from text and line art, not to mention worrying about what each individual printer (or driver) is going to do to your output.
<br><br>Two other ideas would be GD and ImageMagick.&nbsp; Both generate an image and offer libraries for php and perl.<br><br>Sean<br></div><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sean Walberg &lt;<a href="mailto:sean@ertw.com">
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