Posted by Brent Palmer on 11/23/06 22:08

"Christoph Burschka" <christoph.burschka@rwth-aachen.de> wrote in message
news:4sm5o1Fv7572U1@mid.dfncis.de...
> Hi,
>
> On my site, I would like to provide a feature that allows content (in this
> case
> articles or forum topics) to be exported as a PDF file.
>
> So far, I am planning to do this by first translating the html content
> into
> LaTeX and then using pdflatex (with a system() command) to create the pdf.
>
> But I don't like the fact that I need to use temp files for this -
> pdflatex will
> only work with input and output files, which means I have to create the
> .tex
> file, run pdflatex, then read and print the .pdf file and delete both.
>
> Do you know of anything that would allow me to print the pdf output
> directly
> from the input I have - or even a way to avoid having to translate it into
> LaTeX?
>
> The server load is not a problem, as the site is not heavily used -
> otherwise I
> might look into caching the output later on.
>
>
> --
> Christoph Burschka

Hello Christoph.

I have used R & OS PDF Class in major projects. This class creates dynamic
PDF documents on the fly.
http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/

You can create a demo PDF on their site.

Regards,

Brent Palmer.

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