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Re: [groff] Groff & tbl as a report generator
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John Gardner |
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Re: [groff] Groff & tbl as a report generator |
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Wed, 25 Jul 2018 04:15:22 +1000 |
Hi Blake, great to hear! Always nice to hear another Troff success story. =)
I know the feeling about finding decent PDF converters. The best one I know
of is wkhtmltopdf <https://wkhtmltopdf.org/>, which uses WebKit's rendering
engine to convert an HTML/CSS-enriched webpage into a correctly-layered
and paged PDF. Tables looked great and scaled perfectly across pages.
I strongly recommend wkhtmltopdf <https://wkhtmltopdf.org/> to anybody else
who finds themselves in need of a decent HTML-to-PDF converter.
On 25 July 2018 at 03:26, Blake McBride <address@hidden> wrote:
> A few years ago I thought of a really, really good use for groff and tbl.
> Thought I'd share.
>
> I write (web-based) business applications. Often I have to generate
> reports which largely mean PDF files. In the past, I used some open-source
> PDF generation utilities. They worked, but what a nightmare! Handling
> paging and lining everything up took hours.
>
> Then, a few years ago, I thought of generating groff/tbl input instead and
> then calling those tools to generate the final PDF output. This made my
> ability to produce reports skyrocket. I have a deep love of troff but
> don't get to use it as much as I'd like. Now I'll be using it all of the
> time.
>
> This is a great use of groff et al. I will be using it all of the time
> now!
>
> Blake McBride
>
Re: [groff] Groff & tbl as a report generator, James K. Lowden, 2018/07/24
Re: [groff] Groff & tbl as a report generator, Blake McBride, 2018/07/30