[ciapug] PDF's

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

That seems to be the general process. My problem is that the PDF I want
to build has a level of formatting that is beyond what I can do with
htmldoc.  

Htmldoc is really fast, and works really well, but it has limits.

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 06:50, laith wrote:
> The only thing we are doing as far as that goes is dynamically building 
> the pdf with the data built in.
> 
> I am not familiar with a way to pass data into a pdf as you mention. 
> Doesn't mean you can't, I've just never heard of it.
> 
> laith
> 
> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> > I have an application that I populate with data from a table. Basically,
> > I read the data from a table and create an html page, then I use htmldoc
> > to convert it into a pdf.  
> > 
> > I'd like to try something differant. I remember seeing something
> > somewhere that allowed you to create a pdf, then populate the PDF by
> > passing the data to it as parameters.
> > 
> > Does anyone do this?  What tools are you using?
> > 
> > 
> > :) Dave
> 
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