--- Paul M Foster <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
>
> --
> Paul M. Foster
>
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Is the input a postscript file? If so the distiller
ps2pds might work, supposedly it comes with
ghostscript. You might already have it.
I also found this:
johndz
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