Re: Invoices

On 4 May 2001, Tony Grant wrote:

> On 03 May 2001 17:05:44 -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> >
> > There are a couple good solutions to this:
> > - use PDFLib to generate printable format directly then pipe it directly
> > to the browser. There are PHPLib hooks in PHP and also a perl module
> > which hooks into it. You can even access it in Java via JNI calls.
> > - create HTML output, but pipe it to html2ps on the system, then pipe
> > that through ps2pdf, then pipe it back out to the browser. The nice
> > thing about this approach is that you don't have to write your own page
> > rendering routines, html2ps does it for you, and you just control it
> > with style-sheet directives.
> > In any event, reporting off a database from the browser does not have to
> > be clunky or unattractive, there's some very good tools available.
>
> My problem is with mailing labels. Standard Avery sort. How do I do
> about formatting multiple pages for mass mailings?
>
> Any pointers?

I'd write a simple C app to read the database and write directly to
the printer port.  First print to paper and line it up over the labels.

Vince.
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