Re: Invoices

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?

Cheers

Tony Grant

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