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Subject:Re: Web Publishing from a Database (#115401) From:Matt Ion <soundy -at- NEXTLEVEL -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:14:18 -0800
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996 07:38:15 MST, wburns -at- MICRON -dot- COM wrote:
>I've checked out this site, and it looks like it handles at least one element
>that I'm looking for. I'm also experimenting with Access 7.0 (ptui) to build
>relationships between document fragments and sections and hope to use CGIs to
>call these up to a web page.
Yowzerz... have fun! :-)
>The other piece is that I have to be able to
>compile fragments into a single flat file for printing. So far, this part has
>been esay. The difficulty will come in when I have to map and translate the HTML
>(and in the future, raw SGML) into some proprietary print format like PDF. Don't
>suppose you can tell me how to do that, can you?
Something like Ghostscript works well to build raw PS files. Dunno
about automating PDF creation though.
Your friend and mine,
Matt
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