Batch creation of PDF files
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Tue Jun 28 21:11:30 UTC 2005
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:23:26PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> I have a little perl that goes to a website (specifically
> www.realestate.com.au) and does a search.
>
> It analyzes the response and creates a web page of my own design,
> complete with the thumbnail images.
>
> My page has all the useful info I require, but without the ads. Also, I
> can automatically drop those properties "under offer" or "under
> contract." I'm not interested in those unless they come back on the market.
>
> Extending it to follow selected links and create a series of "brochures"
> for each property is a matter of a little more similar code: not a
> difficult proposition.
>
> What I'd like to be able to do is create PDF documents rather than HTML
> - HTML is fine for viewing onscreen, but pretty poor for printing, and
> when I go on inspections I like to have bits of paper.
>
> What I don't know is what are suitable tools for the task. I suspect it
> will involve one of more of XML, tex and latex.
>
> I've Googled and found some aging documents that might help (but I don't
> know how long it will take to learn enough XML etc), nor whether the art
> has moved on significantly.
>
> I do not want to do the PDF creation manually, and this rules out OOo
> and similar.
>
> I would like to be able to control image size (as in HTML) so all
> documents look similar, images don't split over pages and so on.
>
> What I'd like is any hints, tutorials, samples and, of course, guidance
> on where to look for more information.
I'd go to cpan.org and start searching there.
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