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

[Peter Shook]

Lout is a nice little program to create postscript or pdf files.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout

   sudo apt-get install lout lout-common lout-doc

- Peter

On Nov 28, 2007 11:07 AM, Dave Marple <d.marple at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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