>>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 6:52 pm, in message
<43CD834B.9010108@quillandmouse.com>, paulf@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> Currently I print invoices by generating a data file. I then run a
> python script that creates a TeX file, runs latex against it, then
> dvips, and finally feeds that to lpr. This system worked perfectly on
my
> old machine. But I recently gave that machine to my mom and bought a
new
> machine. Unfortunately, since I installed it a couple of weeks ago,
I've
> had to reboot it (because it froze) more than twenty times. It
appears
> to happen when I'm going through this process of printing invoices.
I've
> broken the process down into steps and done each step by hand, but
the
> computer doesn't hang when I do that. While I'd like to continue
doing
> it this way, I'm not sure how to go about troubleshooting this.
>
> So here's my idea: making a PDF, and feeding that to the printer. It
> seems like I've run into PHP software that allows you do feed it data
> and have it create a PDF (kind of like filling in the blanks). Anyone
> know of anything like this that's in something other than PHP? Like
> python or C (and naturally, Open Source)?
>
> Paul
Hey Paul...you use TeX (and LaTeX) why not pdfTeX? Seems like a perfect
fit.
JP
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