05-21-2009
Printing to PDF - Advanced usage
Hello,
Just a rather long query regarding printing to PDF.
I have installed the Cups-PDF printing system which enables me to send a normal text file and create a PDF of it. I then use the pdftk to merge that file with a template.
My question is, that I have a database system that will need to send different output to this PDF conversion and then - depending on what it is - merge it with a specific template, then email it out to an email address.
So I guess what I am asking is that is there a set-up somewhere currently that would allow me to send a print job to a PDF conversion program which if I send some different parameters - such as:
lp -dcupspdf -typeINV
-etesting@example.com
That way when i send the print job it does the conversion, and it also know that it is a type INV so it merges it with whatever template INV is defined to. Then finally it emails out that PDF to the said email address.
Hope this makes sense and any advice is greatly aprieciated.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
text::pdf::dict
Text::PDF::Dict(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Text::PDF::Dict(3pm)
NAME
Text::PDF::Dict - PDF Dictionaries and Streams. Inherits from PDF::Objind
INSTANCE VARIABLES
There are various special instance variables which are used to look after, particularly, streams. Each begins with a space:
stream Holds the stream contents for output
streamfile
Holds the stream contents in an external file rather than in memory. This is not the same as a PDF file stream. The data is stored
in its unfiltered form.
streamloc
If both ' stream' and ' streamfile' are empty, this indicates where in the source PDF the stream starts.
METHODS
$d->outobjdeep($fh)
Outputs the contents of the dictionary to a PDF file. This is a recursive call.
It also outputs a stream if the dictionary has a stream element. If this occurs then this method will calculate the length of the stream
and insert it into the stream's dictionary.
$d->read_stream($force_memory)
Reads in a stream from a PDF file. If the stream is greater than "PDF::Dict::mincache" (defaults to 32768) bytes to be stored, then the
default action is to create a file for it somewhere and to use that file as a data cache. If $force_memory is set, this caching will not
occur and the data will all be stored in the $self->{' stream'} variable.
$d->val
Returns the dictionary, which is itself.
$d->copy($inpdf, $res, $unique, $outpdf, %opts)
Copies an object. See Text::PDF::Objind::Copy() for details
perl v5.8.8 2006-09-09 Text::PDF::Dict(3pm)