Printing?

> I have a potential application for Seaside, but in our electronic  
> world,
> they want to print.  Sending a programmatically generated pdf document
> back to the browser should suffice - I think.  My first thought is  
> to do
> that via LaTeX; generate the source and then (perhaps on Linux) pipe  
> it
> into tex2pdf or whatever it's called, and then route that back to the
> browser through Seaside and OS Process.
>
> Am I dreaming?  Is there a better way?
>
> BTW, printing the browser output will very likely NOT do the job.  
> There
> will be much hand wringing over notations such as pg n of N, headers
> appearing on each page, etc.  It is a medical application, and one has
> to be very careful about "lost" pages getting into the wrong patient's
> chart.  You would probably not what your sister getting your dad's
> medications, right.
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
> Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
> University of Florida
> Department of Anesthesiology
> PO Box 100254
> Gainesville, FL 32610-0254
>
> Email: [hidden email]
> Tel: (352) 846-1285
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> What about Simberon Reports?  There's a VW version but I'm not
> sure if a Squeak version exists or not..  I've never used it but am
> planning
> on playing with it later this year..
>
> -- Rick
>
> On Aug 8, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Bill Schwab wrote:
>
>> I have a potential application for Seaside, but in our electronic world,
>> they want to print.  Sending a programmatically generated pdf document
>> back to the browser should suffice - I think.  My first thought is to do
>> that via LaTeX; generate the source and then (perhaps on Linux) pipe it
>> into tex2pdf or whatever it's called, and then route that back to the
>> browser through Seaside and OS Process.
>>
>> Am I dreaming?  Is there a better way?
>>
>> BTW, printing the browser output will very likely NOT do the job.  There
>> will be much hand wringing over notations such as pg n of N, headers
>> appearing on each page, etc.  It is a medical application, and one has
>> to be very careful about "lost" pages getting into the wrong patient's
>> chart.  You would probably not what your sister getting your dad's
>> medications, right.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
>> University of Florida
>> Department of Anesthesiology
>> PO Box 100254
>> Gainesville, FL 32610-0254
>>
>> Email: [hidden email]
>> Tel: (352) 846-1285
>> FAX: (352) 392-7029
>>
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> For generating a document on the server and transferring it to the  
> client running a web browser, PDF format would be better than  
> Simberon Reports.  The latter draws the reports onto bitmaps and  
> expects to be able to send them directly to the printer.
>
> David Buck
>
> Richard E. Flower wrote:
>> What about Simberon Reports?  There's a VW version but I'm not
>> sure if a Squeak version exists or not..  I've never used it but am  
>> planning
>> on playing with it later this year..
>>
>> -- Rick
>>
>> On Aug 8, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Bill Schwab wrote:
>>
>>> I have a potential application for Seaside, but in our electronic  
>>> world,
>>> they want to print.  Sending a programmatically generated pdf  
>>> document
>>> back to the browser should suffice - I think.  My first thought is  
>>> to do
>>> that via LaTeX; generate the source and then (perhaps on Linux)  
>>> pipe it
>>> into tex2pdf or whatever it's called, and then route that back to  
>>> the
>>> browser through Seaside and OS Process.
>>>
>>> Am I dreaming?  Is there a better way?
>>>
>>> BTW, printing the browser output will very likely NOT do the job.  
>>> There
>>> will be much hand wringing over notations such as pg n of N, headers
>>> appearing on each page, etc.  It is a medical application, and one  
>>> has
>>> to be very careful about "lost" pages getting into the wrong  
>>> patient's
>>> chart.  You would probably not what your sister getting your dad's
>>> medications, right.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
>>> University of Florida
>>> Department of Anesthesiology
>>> PO Box 100254
>>> Gainesville, FL 32610-0254
>>>
>>> Email: [hidden email]
>>> Tel: (352) 846-1285
>>> FAX: (352) 392-7029
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> seaside mailing list
>>> [hidden email]
>>> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seaside
>>>
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> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Richard E. Flower <[hidden email]> wrote:
>  > Thanks David -- I didn't know that.. I was hoping it could spit out a PDF
>  > report possibly.. (yes, I've not looked
>  > into it very deeply obviously!)..
>  >
>  > -- Rick
>  >
>  > On Aug 8, 2008, at 10:58 AM, David Buck wrote:
>  >
>  >> For generating a document on the server and transferring it to the client
>  >> running a web browser, PDF format would be better than Simberon Reports.
>  >>  The latter draws the reports onto bitmaps and expects to be able to send
>  >> them directly to the printer.
>  >>
>  >> David Buck
>  >>
>  >> Richard E. Flower wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>> What about Simberon Reports?  There's a VW version but I'm not
>  >>> sure if a Squeak version exists or not..  I've never used it but am
>  >>> planning
>  >>> on playing with it later this year..
>  >>>
>  >>> -- Rick
>  >>>
>  >>> On Aug 8, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Bill Schwab wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>>> I have a potential application for Seaside, but in our electronic world,
>  >>>> they want to print.  Sending a programmatically generated pdf document
>  >>>> back to the browser should suffice - I think.  My first thought is to do
>  >>>> that via LaTeX; generate the source and then (perhaps on Linux) pipe it
>  >>>> into tex2pdf or whatever it's called, and then route that back to the
>  >>>> browser through Seaside and OS Process.
>  >>>>
>
>
> I've used groff (and tbl) for generating PDFs via Postscript. The
>  pipeline is fast and the resulting PDF can be served inline. If you
>  decided to take this route then also checkout the Heirloom document
>  tools project (http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html) for
>  their's seem to be more "modern".
>
>  Cheers,
>  -Krishna
>
>
>  --
>  Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
>  build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying
>  to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
>   - Richard Cook
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