RE: FN-FORUM Auto-generating PDF files

date posted 28th June 2002 17:21

> Has anyone any experience of auto-generating PDF files from database
> content?
>
> Can this be done?

Yes. A public domain solution (which with care can give superb results) is
to generate LaTeX source code, then spawn pdflatex to generate the pdf
itself. You don't need any Adobe software, and there are ports around for
nearly any possible platform.

There are a few options around if you need to include graphics where the
graphics are drawn on-the-fly from the data itself, but that's a slightly
more complicated question that's a bit more machine specific.

Sarah