Hi Fred
I doubt there is a tool that does exactly what you want. However, this
line
> I want to improve upon my laziness, impatience, and hubris by
reeks of perl. I'd personally use perl. Either generate the report
outright, or perhaps something like generate csv, and just imort that into
Applix to get you graphic and prety printing.
This line makes me think you may not want to learn perl though :)
> and b) learning it might kill me :-)
I can help with specifics if you go this route.
hth
charles
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a small business for which I produce invoices on a biweekly
> basis. I presently create them in a spreadsheet (in Applix, fwiw). I
> have templates for them, so I'm not re-inventing the wheel every time,
> but the whole process is very tedious.
>
> I want to improve upon my laziness, impatience, and hubris by
> automating this stuff so that it can be done from the commandline (or,
> better, from a cron job so that I just grab the printed invoices out
> of the printer twice a month).
>
> These invoices have a small color graphic (though I could certainly
> dump that if keeping it proved impractical), lots of ruled lines, and
> a small amount of text. The amounts invoiced vary with each invoice,
> so I can't simply use a static page. The data appearing in the invoice
> will be pulled from a database (either a text file or even from MySQL)
> and inserted into the invoice file. It just seems to me to be a waste
> of my time filling in these invoices every two weeks when (with the
> proper tool to produce good output) I could let the computer do it for
> me.
>
> What tools are available for doing something like this? I know that
> TeX/LaTeX could do it, but a) it seems to me to be overkill and b)
> learning it might kill me :-)
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