Generating PDF's, newbie question

[Jens]

Hello,

I have a question about generating PDF:s. I need to generate PDF documents on the fly using a template wich I fill with information from a progress database. I want to publish these documents on a website and also be able to e-mail them via a batch job. Any suggestions. This should be run on Unix. Is it easiest to work with the Adobe products or are the available third party products (i.e. PDFInclude) any good?

This is to be run on Solaris and WebSpeed.

Thank you for any suggestions.

Regards Jens

 

[Dawn M]

Jens,

My company uses pcl2pdf, a third party piece of software that resides on our Unix server, to convert pcl documents to pdf files. We then can e-mail (as an attachment) or fax these documents to customers or internally.

I highly recommend Pcl2Pdf. You can even download a trial copy to test out before purchasing.

Here's the link for their website: http://www.visual.co.uk/pcl2pdfunix.htm

Hope this helps! Good luck!

 

[ronaldb]

PDFInclude works very well. However, you mention that you need to fill out a template. I don't think PDFInclude supports that in this version, but they are working on that. Check out http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf-inc for PDFInclude files, help and status.

 

[tanios]

Pdf Include

Thanks for the suggestion.
I will need to developer a solution to generate a PDF report.

Tanios Toledo El Alam
Centrum Software Ltda

 

[gcampbell]

I am the originator of PDFinclude ... contact me offline if you require your application to contain PDF generated documents.

Thanks,
Gordon

gcampbell@epro-sys.com