Re: [LINUX5250] lp5250d crashing

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Scott Klement wrote:

> I wonder if there are any XML to PDF translators out there?  (But I'm just

None that I know of.

> too lazy to look)  I know you can translate TEX to PDF, which might be an
> option here.

Yeah, I'm not sure that those produce searchable PDFs either.  Of course I
wouldn't mind having my reports in TeX...

> It seems to me that it'd be more versatile to output to something like
> XML, then use existing translators to go to PDF or whatever else we might
> want in the future.

Okay, but I'm no XML expert.  Heck, I'm no PDF expert either (I knew
nothing about 'em until yesterday), but...

> But maybe I'm living in dreamland :)

I hope to make your dreams come true!!  (that is not meant in anyway other
than by having PDF output :)  I think I will have usable PDF output by the
end of today.  Then the *real* coding experts can make it nice :)

James Rich
james@eaerich.com