From: Armin Roehrl <armin@...>
Date: 2002-12-28T10:26:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby & Preprinted forms - will they work together?

> > a lot of luck generating fairly complex financial forms (multi-page
> > invoices, statements, and so on) using Ruby.
>
> Is this code available anywhere for public consumption ?
it comes with most linux distributions.

On Windows you might want to look at MikTeX
http://www.miktex.org/

more links:
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Typesetting/TeX/LaTeX/?tc=1
> Is conversion from LaTeX to PDF fairly easy and multi-platform ?
use pdflatex -- that saves you some problems with fonts.
Alternatively on linux use:
dvips and then ps2pdf
These packages rely on ghostscript -- I think.

LaTeX takes some time to get used to, but
once you know it, you might not want to go
back.

Good luck,
	-A
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