[RndTbl] Page Layout
Dan Martin
ummar143 at cc.umanitoba.ca
Wed Jan 31 09:06:25 CST 2007
Thanks Sean!
Since pdf has an open specification, I will likely use it. I normally
use C++, but I did recently use perl to parse printed patient info,
because of its pattern capabilities. I used a perl library to create
XML patient files, the idea being that I could access these from Java or
C++, but if there is a handy perl library for pdf, I might just stick
with perl.
-Dan
Sean Walberg wrote:
> On 1/30/07, *Dan Martin* <ummar143 at cc.umanitoba.ca
> <mailto:ummar143 at cc.umanitoba.ca>> wrote:
>
> The display could be done with XHTML. The printed forms could be done
> using LaTeX commands, but I imagine it would be painful to program. I
> could learn postscript. I assume Acrobat's pdf is proprietary and
> cannot be used. I have heard of an XML based page layout
> language, and
> such a solution would lend itself to an XSLT transformation.
>
>
>
> PDF is a published 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). I'd recommend against PostScript,
> while it is fun (especially if you had an HP-48 calculator at some
> point) it'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.
>
> Two other ideas would be GD and ImageMagick. Both generate an image
> and offer libraries for php and perl.
>
> Sean
>
>
>
> --
> Sean Walberg < sean at ertw.com <mailto:sean at ertw.com>> http://ertw.com/
--
-Dan
Dr. Dan Martin, MD, CCFP, BSc, BCSc (Hon)
GP Hospital Practitioner
Computer Science grad student
ummar143 at cc.umanitoba.ca
(204) 831-1746
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