Re: One groff file outputting multiple pdfs?

2020-11-19 Thread Dave Kemper
On 11/19/20, Richard Morse wrote: > For reasons having to do > with how it is being run, it’s not clear to me that I can automate running > groff, so right now I am manually running the groff command for each > generation. Hi Richard, It's not entirely clear what your workflow is, or why groff c

Re: One groff file outputting multiple pdfs?

2020-11-19 Thread Damian McGuckin
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Richard Morse wrote: However, it sounds increasingly like this is not something that can be solved in groff, but rather I will have to explore modifying the rest of the process to handle this. That has been my experience when generating invoices with groff, although in m

Re: One groff file outputting multiple pdfs?

2020-11-19 Thread Richard Morse
> On Nov 19, 2020, at 6:01 PM, Robert Thorsby wrote: > > On 20/11/20 09:32:03, Richard Morse wrote: >> > On Nov 19, 2020, at 5:11 PM, Heinz-Jürgen Oertel >> > wrote: >> > Can you use pdftk to split the groff output file file afterwards in pages? >> Unfortunately each center’s invoice is a diffe

Re: One groff file outputting multiple pdfs?

2020-11-19 Thread Richard Morse
> On Nov 19, 2020, at 5:47 PM, James K. Lowden wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 15:41:42 -0500 > Richard Morse wrote: > >> The roff file is being generated by a program, and for a few reasons, >> it would be much easier to have the program generate one output file, >> and then run Groff on the si

Re: One groff file outputting multiple pdfs?

2020-11-19 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 20/11/20 09:32:03, Richard Morse wrote: > On Nov 19, 2020, at 5:11 PM, Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote: > Can you use pdftk to split the groff output file file afterwards in pages? Unfortunately each center’s invoice is a different, arbitrary, number of pages. The file internally knows when

Re: One groff file outputting multiple pdfs?

2020-11-19 Thread James K. Lowden
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 15:41:42 -0500 Richard Morse wrote: > The roff file is being generated by a program, and for a few reasons, > it would be much easier to have the program generate one output file, > and then run Groff on the single file. Is there someway, perhaps > using the mysterious ?I/O? r

Re: One groff file outputting multiple pdfs?

2020-11-19 Thread Richard Morse
> On Nov 19, 2020, at 5:32 PM, Richard Morse wrote: > >> On Nov 19, 2020, at 5:11 PM, Heinz-Jürgen Oertel >> wrote: >> >> Am Donnerstag, 19. November 2020, 21:41:42 CET schrieb Richard Morse: >>> […] >>> The roff file is being generated by a program, and for a few reasons, it >>> would be muc

Re: One groff file outputting multiple pdfs?

2020-11-19 Thread Richard Morse
> On Nov 19, 2020, at 5:11 PM, Heinz-Jürgen Oertel > wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 19. November 2020, 21:41:42 CET schrieb Richard Morse: >> […] >> The roff file is being generated by a program, and for a few reasons, it >> would be much easier to have the program generate one output file, and then

Re: One groff file outputting multiple pdfs?

2020-11-19 Thread Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
Am Donnerstag, 19. November 2020, 21:41:42 CET schrieb Richard Morse: > Hi! I am using groff to generate some PDF reports. Each report consists of > data for a number of different invoices, each of which is going to a > different payee. We are being asked to submit each invoice separately, so we

One groff file outputting multiple pdfs?

2020-11-19 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! I am using groff to generate some PDF reports. Each report consists of data for a number of different invoices, each of which is going to a different payee. We are being asked to submit each invoice separately, so we need to create a separate PDF for each center. The roff file is being gene