From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2002-12-30T01:17:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby & Preprinted forms - will they work together?

Thanks to all !

"Armin Roehrl" <armin@xss.de> wrote in message
news:200212280226.16561.armin@xss.de...
> > > 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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