Re: Competitive Class: Excel_File

El Mié 06 Nov 2002 17:45, Markus Wolff escribió: > On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 21:10:17 +0100 > > Nah, not impossible. But if you want a real template system based on > placeholders, you can´t use a template that is already in PDF format, > IMHO. A very common way is to create your templates in TeX, and put some > placeholders in them. You could use a standard template class like IT[X] > or Smarty to replace them with the actual values. > After that, the TeX file has to be converted to a DVI file, which in > turn is then converted to PDF. Of course this can use up quite some CPU > time and memory. > > Although you can get some pretty neat results with this, I simply can´t > stand TeX... I think it would be way cooler if there existed some kind > of PDF conversion tool for OpenOffice documents. As these are nothing > but ZIPped XML files, one of the existing template classes could be used > for this as well. I think an alternative for this is XSL:FO. Check: http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?pacid=16 The thing that bothers me though, is that it depens on Java :( > Or are there other alternatives that I´ve missed? > > Regards, > Markus