Hi Wil
htmldoc website:
http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/ It's a C program, licensed under GPL, so you can use it for free. It runs well under Linux, I compiled it on my server, no problem. There is also a free Windows executable available without command line interface, which you need for it to work with the plugin. That means that you have to build your own executable with command line support for Windows servers.
I chose this program, because it is the only solution I found that supports template based PDF creation. Meaning that you can use a normal html template (as you use it with Links SQL), parse it with the GT template parser, and then produce the PDF output. The translation for HTML to PDF is good, I tested many HTML tags, and the corresponding PDF output was as expected.
There is also the PDF::Template module, which takes an XML template and produces PDF output. The disadvantage of this solution is that people would have to learn a new template language, and also that you need to have pdflib installed.
Other perl modules (i.e. pure perl solutions) have much lower level interfaces, you actually have to write your own code to produce PDF output. While this is fine for many situations, it is not what I was looking for in this case.
Ivan
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