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 <div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 28, 2007 8:49 AM, Richard Seguin <<a href="mailto:ubuntu@nb.sympatico.ca">ubuntu@nb.sympatico.ca</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 <<a href="mailto:1ballistic1@gmail.com">1ballistic1@gmail.com</a>> 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 > <a href="http://wirelizard.ca" target="_blank"> wirelizard.ca</a> > <a href="http://ubuntu-ca.org" target="_blank">ubuntu-ca.org</a> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHTXHkuPTx26Z9m64RAr2+AJ9BNVIsN1bzq3hw3rudvnACElI2eQCg4BZw HLR2FfS2XYu4MANo4XjddVI= =IOav -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-ca mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca" target="_blank"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a> </blockquote></div>