Creating PDF files in Unix

Yves Leclerc

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Jul 4, 2003, 3:34:28 PM7/4/03

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I am in the need of a method of generating PDF files. My company writes an
application system which now need to be able to create these files, from
time to time. We were thinking of setting up a "print to pdf", since we can
have multiple printer definitions in our system. I have been following
directions in order to get the "ghostscript" to be installed from a
Shunkware 2000 CD. However, the Shunkware 2000 INSTALL procedure is
"crashing" my server, since it is corrupting the CUSTOM databases. After
that, I need to do a "recovery" restore, which works correctly.

Can someone direct me to an easier method to create a PDF file, on demand
and with different file names?????

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Yves Leclerc

Jean-Pierre Radley

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Jul 4, 2003, 4:11:10 PM7/4/03

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Yves Leclerc typed (on Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:34:28PM -0400):

| I am in the need of a method of generating PDF files. My company writes an
| application system which now need to be able to create these files, from
| time to time. We were thinking of setting up a "print to pdf", since we can
| have multiple printer definitions in our system. I have been following
| directions in order to get the "ghostscript" to be installed from a
| Shunkware 2000 CD. However, the Shunkware 2000 INSTALL procedure is
| "crashing" my server, since it is corrupting the CUSTOM databases. After
| that, I need to do a "recovery" restore, which works correctly.

How is Skunkware installation screwing up your custom databases?

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JP

Dan Skinner

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Jul 5, 2003, 8:26:04 PM7/5/03

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"Yves Leclerc" <ylecler...@maysys.com> wrote in message news:<be4ks6$1bsu$1...@news.securenet.net>...

Check out www.sanface.com - Look for txt2pdf.

It's a perl solution that works well and is pretty easy to use on
SCO.
We use to publish financial reports (hundreds a month) and forward to
end users by email.
Regards...Dan.

Yves Leclerc

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Jul 7, 2003, 3:13:58 PM7/7/03

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Shunkware 2000 was installing the modules and "hung" for over two hours.
The server was completely frozen solid and when I forced a reboot, CUSTOM
came out with an error stating that a database (example:
./opt/dfmhdjjkIKEWR9II32R99324DHFRUY34) was corrupted. I did not have the
complete time to try to salvage the database, so I used my AIR BAG recovery
of my server, with the latest Lone-Tar backup.

Yves

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Brian K. White

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Jul 9, 2003, 1:40:44 AM7/9/03

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Walter Haslbeck

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Jul 10, 2003, 4:40:17 AM7/10/03

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Am Fri, 04 Jul 2003 15:34:28 -0400 schrieb Yves Leclerc:

> Can someone direct me to an easier method to create a PDF file, on demand
> and with different file names?????

Take a look at pdflib. (http://www.pdflib.com)

Walter