Hi On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 10:56:48PM +0300, Youval Bronicki wrote: > Hello all, > > > [This is not strictly a Linux question. I hope it will be of interest to > the list.] > > > I am developing an enterprise application that will generate various > business documents (invoices, purchase orders, RFQs). The documents > should be printable (and pretty), and also be available in soft copy. >
Suppose you pick up OpenOffice as your preffered word processor. You start by creating a resonable template (manually). Users just use this template. > > Requirements: > > A) Documents should be generated automatically by "merging" dynamic > content with pre-designed document "templates" Basically, tell the users not to use manual styling unless really-really necessary. > > B) Designing document templates should be easy (A WYSIWYG approach > is required). Almost as easy as editing a document. > > C) Resulting documents should be printable. Sure. > > D) (Not strictly a must) - being able to send the documents to users > who don't have Microsoft Office. For editing: requires a computer with OpenOffice installed. For viewing: a computer with either a PDF viewer or a "Open Office viewer" (is there such a program?), depending on how you work. I'm not sure OpenOffice is the best tool for the job, BTW. It certainly has much better and straight-forward styling support than MS-Office. But also consider LyX. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
