On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:23:26PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > I have a little perl that goes to a website (specifically > www.realestate.com.au) and does a search. > > It analyzes the response and creates a web page of my own design, > complete with the thumbnail images. > > My page has all the useful info I require, but without the ads. Also, I > can automatically drop those properties "under offer" or "under > contract." I'm not interested in those unless they come back on the market. > > Extending it to follow selected links and create a series of "brochures" > for each property is a matter of a little more similar code: not a > difficult proposition. > > What I'd like to be able to do is create PDF documents rather than HTML > - HTML is fine for viewing onscreen, but pretty poor for printing, and > when I go on inspections I like to have bits of paper. > > What I don't know is what are suitable tools for the task. I suspect it > will involve one of more of XML, tex and latex. > > I've Googled and found some aging documents that might help (but I don't > know how long it will take to learn enough XML etc), nor whether the art > has moved on significantly. > > I do not want to do the PDF creation manually, and this rules out OOo > and similar. > > I would like to be able to control image size (as in HTML) so all > documents look similar, images don't split over pages and so on. > > What I'd like is any hints, tutorials, samples and, of course, guidance > on where to look for more information. I'd go to cpan.org and start searching there. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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