Danial -- ...and then Danial Magid said... % % Hi,
Hello! % % I am trying to put together a process that will format and print out % checks (pay stbus), so I need to do a bit of formatting and combine the % right fonts. Who needs fonts? COURIER RUL3Z AND ASC11 IS DA B0MB, D00D! ;-) % % I was wondering if there are any books or urls I could use for reference. Do you know perl already or are you starting out? perl itself doesn't know from fonts or any other printer-specific configuration, though there's no reason it couldn't spit out the right stuff on demand once you told it how to do so. It will handle formatting well and is a natural for accessing your database of employees and processing what comes back out. Rather than mess with funky escape codes for picking fonts and the like, you might consider having perl output TeX source (hey, there might be a module) so that you can then process *that* and do the pretty part. An excellent reference is "The Camel Book", O'Reilly's Programming Perl. It doesn't quite take you by the hand, but it's still quite understandable. % % Thanks, % Danial HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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