Generating PDF files ??

concoran · 09-24-2005, 01:09 AM

Is there a way to programmaticallly generate PDF files? Is any such thing as
as an API available for that?

Thanks in advance for any info.
Concoran

aysiu · 09-24-2005, 01:27 AM

What do you mean by programmatically?

wilmo2 · 09-24-2005, 03:28 AM

I did something like this in the past. It went something like this.
Create Document as HTML. Use html2ps, which is a perl script, to convert HTML to postscript.
Then use ps2pdf to convert the postscript file to pdf.

There may be a more straight-forward solution... but this worked.

jlliagre · 09-24-2005, 03:56 AM

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Is any such thing as as an API available for that?

There are certainly plenty of them, in what programming language are you looking for one ?

concoran · 09-24-2005, 04:04 AM

Thanks.

Quote:

Originally posted by aysiu
What do you mean by programmatically?

It means, you write a program that does some processing and generate a document, it either stores it at a predetermined location or presents to the user. My question is not Linux specific, since PDF isn't.

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Originally posted by jlliagre
There are certainly plenty of them, in what programming language are you looking for one ?

C, preferably.

jlliagre · 09-24-2005, 04:29 AM

That one for example, google will show you a bunch more.
http://www.fastio.com/

concoran · 09-25-2005, 12:26 AM

Thanks jlliagre, That is a helpful link.