In order to create PDFs I've installed html2ps, written in Perl, and Ghostscript that has the ps2pdf utility.
And then I do something like this in my CGI appplications:

my $HTML2PS = '/usr/local/bin/html2ps -L';
my $PS2PDF = '/usr/bin/ps2pdf';

# First create an HTML file that I want to print

my $h2p =  "<html><head></head><body>
            <img src=$pngfile> 
            </body></html>";

my $file_to_ps = "$plot_file_base".'_to_ps.htm';
open (FH,">$file_to_ps") or die "cannot open $file_to_ps: $!\n";
print FH $h2p;
close(FH);

# Then create a ps file

my $file_ps = "$plot_file_base".'.ps';
system "$HTML2PS $file_to_ps > $file_ps";

#And finally convert it to PDF

my $file_pdf = "$plot_file_base".'.pdf';
system "$PS2PDF $file_ps $file_pdf";

unlink $file_to_ps;
unlink $file_ps;

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It's under Linux, but will probably work under other OSs. Hope this helps.

Ciao, Roberto

In reply to Re: Paper Reports with PDF or...? by rbi
in thread Paper Reports with PDF or...? by mandog

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