[XeTeX] Your advice for generation of tables/forms with decorations?

2011-04-28 Thread Kārlis Repsons
What would people of this list recommend on this topic: How to generate a table, which has numerous custom decorations? I mean, some external, curved frame lines and similar internals, also a bit of embedded graphics... Perhaps using some EPS-converted graphics, but maybe also writing with some

Re: [XeTeX] Your advice for generation of tables/forms with decorations?

2011-04-28 Thread André Bellaïche
Use Adobe Illustrator. Typeset the table into a one page PDF file, open the file with Illustrator, and add the decorations. Inport the decorated table using includegraphics. André Bellaïche Le 28 avr. 2011 à 11:18, Kārlis Repsons a écrit : > What would people of this list recommend on this

Re: [XeTeX] Your advice for generation of tables/forms with decorations?

2011-04-28 Thread Kārlis Repsons
On Thursday 28 April 2011 09:27:22 André Bellaïche wrote: > Use Adobe Illustrator. > > Typeset the table into a one page PDF file, open the file with Illustrator, > and add the decorations. Inport the decorated table using includegraphics. But I need automation... Meaning, the created (EPS, MetaP

Re: [XeTeX] Your advice for generation of tables/forms with decorations?

2011-04-28 Thread Jean-Louis Cordonnier
Use Scribus to draw your decorations. Or convert (in Imagemagick package) (from png to eps for instance) Then with pdftk, you can stamp your pdf table file with your pdf decoration file Jean-Louis Le 28/04/2011 11:18, Kārlis Repsons a écrit : > What would people of this list recommend on this to