From: Edwin Van leeuwen <edder@...>
Date: 2007-04-28T03:50:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for thoughts and opinions on Ruport, and reporti

Gregory Brown wrote:
> On 4/27/07, Mariusz P�kala <skoot@ideico.net> wrote:
> 
>> Maybe generating TeX and then PDF from it may be good solution?
>> TeX can do 'styling'.
>>
>> However, I don't know anything about Ruport (yet) so forgive me if what I
>> said is stupid. :-)
> 
> It's not stupid.   I just don't think TeX styling is going to be any
> higher level than our PDF::Writer wrappers, and it introduces a huge
> toolchain.   We at one point were doing TeX output for tables but
> dropped it.

Have you ever looked at tioga. It creates figures directly in pdf and 
then uses tex for text formatting. It is very flexible and allows you to 
create beautiful figures in pdf, so it might be something to look at.


http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/~paxton/tioga.html

Edwin

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