Re: Dynamic Generation of PDFs?
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2003
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = You might look at "txt2pdf" (http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdf.html). I haven't gotten around to trying it myself, though. Dave Hurley Department of Biology University of Washington On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 07:57 AM, Carl Endres wrote: > Hello, all > > The webserver for the company I work for is currently running WebDNA > 5.1 on a > Windows 2000 machine. I am curious as to if it is possible to > dynamically > generate PDFs on the fly from other dynamic shtml pages. Also, if it > is > possible to dynamically generate these files, is it also possible to > insert > images, as well? What I am hoping for is a way to create a page with > similar > formatting to this page, > http://www.RowmanLittlefield.test/ISBN/0742527492. > However, the text and cover image would change depending on the book > that was > being displayed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've already > tried the > "PDF-o-matic" by Easy Software, and that didn't work. I also tried > using a > trick where a skeleton PDF is created with WebDNA tags, then a file is > written > to using the template as an Include. That also didn't work as it only > generates > damaged and unusable files. > > Thanks for your time, > > Carl Endres > Assistant Webmaster > Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group > cendres@rowman.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list
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You might look at "txt2pdf" (http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdf.html). I haven't gotten around to trying it myself, though. Dave Hurley Department of Biology University of Washington On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 07:57 AM, Carl Endres wrote: > Hello, all > > The webserver for the company I work for is currently running WebDNA > 5.1 on a > Windows 2000 machine. I am curious as to if it is possible to > dynamically > generate PDFs on the fly from other dynamic shtml pages. Also, if it > is > possible to dynamically generate these files, is it also possible to > insert > images, as well? What I am hoping for is a way to create a page with > similar > formatting to this page, > http://www.RowmanLittlefield.test/ISBN/0742527492. > However, the text and cover image would change depending on the book > that was > being displayed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've already > tried the > "PDF-o-matic" by Easy Software, and that didn't work. I also tried > using a > trick where a skeleton PDF is created with WebDNA tags, then a file is > written > to using the template as an Include. That also didn't work as it only > generates > damaged and unusable files. > > Thanks for your time, > > Carl Endres > Assistant Webmaster > Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group > cendres@rowman.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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