Re: cross platform PDF generation (and mayve even printing)

[Andreas Volz <lists brachttal net>]

Am Sat, 23 Oct 2004 23:21:08 -0600 schrieb Neil Zanella:

> Hello,
>
> I need a cross platform (Linux + Win32 at a minimum) solution to
> generate PDF files. I would prefer a C library to do this. I guess
> printing is not so important as long as I can generate a PDF file
> there will be lots of ways to print it. However I am finding most PDF
> generating libraries out there are commercial. I would even like to
> have one with a python wrapper around it. Does anyone have any
> recommendations?

Hi,

The question is which data you like to transform to pdf? You could
generate LaTeX source and generate PDF files with pdflatex. LaTeX
distributions are available on most distributions and very powerfull.

This solution is perhaps not the way you first thought, but it's an easy
solution.

regards
Andreas