Re: [ILUG-BOM] About LAMP query

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 12:26:05AM +0530, Devdas Bhagat wrote:

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2. As of now, main application of it is to generate exam grade reports...
3. And it should be able to give concise & well formatted reports, which

could be printed on ordinary printers

Sounds like a call for TeX, and possibly Perl. A single batch job can do this automatically. Pull the data out of the database, format it in TeX, convert to PDF, send to printer.

Would it be necessary to get into TeX? Perl is too powerful to not be able to generate PDF or postscript directly ... at least PHP is known to be able to do that! Dunno about handling Gujarati fonts, depends on whether and how far Indian localisation is affecting Perl.

Sameer.