On 17 Sep 2000  02:53 Adrian Hunt wrote:
>Are there any packages for Linux similar to JetForm in
>the open source arena?  What we're looking for is
>something where we could define a template page with a
>bunch of "blanks" in it and then "fill in the blanks"
>either directly from a database or via the
>command-line (since we could write a wrapper which
>gets data from the database and then passes it in via
>the CL).

You could ue perl to read the template file and the input date and create
the output form in HTML. POipe the HTML through the html2ps utility to create
nice looking PostScript output.

        http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html

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