Application question: Looking for a program that will allow me to templates -- A little more information

[Dave Marple]

Perhaps you might want to look into LaTeX, which is a type-setting system
for creating professional looking documents.  I'd imagine that it wouldn't
be too hard to string together a program that generates a file for latex and
a script which tells it to print.

Elpram

On Nov 28, 2007 8:49 AM, Richard Seguin <ubuntu at nb.sympatico.ca> wrote:

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> Sorry for the delay on elaborating on my question...  I am developing a
> program that in the end will send something to the printer... Sounds
> easy enough other then I want it to be in the form of a professional
> looking document...  What I was thinking of doing was creating the
> template (through whatever existing program) and have my program just
> fill in the necessary fields...
>
> Does that explain it any better?
>
> Richard Seguin
>
> Brian Burger wrote:
> > On 11/24/07, Eric Cyr <1ballistic1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I can't honestly say that I've looked at the templates in
> OpenOffice.org,
> >> but if they're anything like the Office ones...
> >>
> >> I can, however say that OpenOffice does let you modify/save .pdf files.
> >>
> >> It should also be in the repos for Ubuntu.  Fairly large download,
> though.
> >
> > Err... OpenOffice is installed by default in Ubuntu; not sure what
> > Kubuntu/Xubuntu use. No need to install it.
> >
> > Scribus can do PDFs, including form creation; that isn't installed by
> > default, but it is certainly in repos. It's a QT/KDE app, so Gnome
> > users will have to let Synaptic install the various QT depends as
> > well.
> >
> > Brian
> > wirelizard.ca
> > ubuntu-ca.org
> >
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