[olug] Report Generator

[Eric Penne]

The plot generated by the scanning software are in PDF.  The individual 
test values measured are also included in that plot.  I need to extract 
that data from the PDF.  The final customer report is done in MSWord and 
saved.  Then it is printed to PDF with Acrobat4.  With Acrobat4 we sign 
it and send it.

I need to get everything to MSWord first so that it can be put together 
for final output in PDF.

I still have a lot of research to go since I don't know exactly how to 
do things.  Thanks for you help.

Eric

Jay Hannah wrote:
> 
> On May 27, 2004, at 4:55 PM, Eric Penne wrote:
> 
>> I started out with html.  I created an HTML file with the sizes of the 
>> pictures correct for the margins that I wanted to use in the document. 
>> I centered them and closed the html file out.  I then opened the html 
>> document in OpenOffice and saved it as MSWord.  The pictures don't 
>> hold the resizing that I need for the margins so I dropped that path.
> 
> 
> I thought your desired end result was .pdf? If so, why go through MSWord 
> format at all?
> 
>> I could not find a Perl->Word
> 
> 
> Hmmm... Haven't used Win32::OLE, but here are a couple examples?
> 
>    http://www.wellho.net/solutions/1480965085.html
>    http://www.znark.com/tech/resumeword.html
> 
>> or Perl->OOWriter interface.
> 
> 
>    http://search.cpan.org/~jmgdoc/OpenOffice-OODoc-1.106/OODoc/Intro.pod
> 
>> Even if I did I would then have to learn Perl.
> 
> 
> Ya. It's good for you.
> 
>    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/index.html
>    http://omaha.pm.org
> 
>> I did find some things with Python but I haven't had the time to check 
>> them out.  I would like to learn Python because I've seen that it has 
>> an interface for some GPIB instrumentation that I would like to use to 
>> automate some testing.  Again I would have to learn Python first.
> 
> 
> Perly GPIB?
>    http://search.cpan.org/~jeffmock/GPIB_0_30/GPIB.pm
> 
> I just joined the Python mailing list, as I remain curious after meeting 
> Guido @ OSCON 2003. Looks like only 2 posts to the mailing list this 
> year -- about the same number as the Perl Mongers if you don't include 
> my posts. -laugh-
> 
>> I barely know the basics of bash scripting and html so almost any 
>> language would be a ground up learning experience for me.
> 
> 
> Oh but the carpal tunnel will be your forever.
> 
>> I also need a script that will generate the correct directory 
>> structure for all of this to work nicely.  The documents are all on a 
>> Win2k server and I'm the only person with bash.  I write about 50% of 
>> the reports so I'm not that worried about interoperabilty with my co 
>> workers yet.
> 
> 
> I'd Samba mount the Win box and whack the directories from Linux under 
> whatever language you prefer <subliminal suggestion>perl</subliminal 
> suggestion>.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> j
> 
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