Re: Looking for an open source solution for generating cross platform printable documents

2005-07-12 Thread Danny Lieberman
Our first iteration was server side rendering to PDF using PHP - it was very slow and because the client had an interactive application with an agent online to a customer we scrapped that approach (- it was slow since there is an intermediate step of rendering HTML to PS which sucks and also

Re: Looking for an open source solution for generating cross platform printable documents

2005-07-12 Thread Youval Bronicki
Danny, Thanks for the info. The formatting problems you have reported keep me focused on OpenOffice (and JooReports). In your system, are the PDF files created automatically by the server, or are they "printed to PDF" manually by end-users? Do you simply use PHP as the template engine? Y

Re: Looking for an open source solution for generating cross platform printable documents

2005-07-11 Thread Danny Lieberman
Yuval You can do this in PHP . We just did an application for generating business documents (proposals etc...) for a call center that use SugarCRM with Firefox, XML, templates and a merge with the mysql db, the output from browser prints to PDF Creator which is then transferred to a FaxoIP ser

Looking for an open source solution for generating cross platform printable documents

2005-07-11 Thread Youval Bronicki
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 i

Re: Looking for an open source solution for generating cross platform printable documents

2005-07-11 Thread Youval Bronicki
Thanks for mentioning OpenOffice (I hadn't considered it as a conversion engine). It looks like a good fit. JooReports (http://jooreports.sourceforge.net) seems to have already done the Java integration I also need in my project. Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 10:56:48PM +0300

Re: Looking for an open source solution for generating cross platform printable documents

2005-07-10 Thread Daniel
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > 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. I generated my company's data sheets using system similar to that you describe, excep

Re: Looking for an open source solution for generating cross platform printable documents

2005-07-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
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 order

Looking for an open source solution for generating cross platform printable documents

2005-07-10 Thread Youval Bronicki
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 so