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    <p>I just learn Ruby, and I wonder how to generate Reports and Invoices (with Logo, adressfield, footer, variable number of invoice-items (sometimes resulting in more than one page), carry over of the amount to pay from one page to the next, free-floating 2-column text (left-and-right-justified) below the resulting cash-informations).</p> <p>Currently I get a canvas to print and draw on from the OperatingSystem (matching the printer specifications) and use some draw-, move-, line-, text- and formfeed-API-Functions and do some heavy calculations for textblock-moving (a bit TeX-like).</p> <p>How will this be done in Ruby?</p> <p>Building an .odt and throw it to OpenOffice or a .tex and throw it to LaTeX?</p> <p>Or are there any free Libraries, thet do all this kind of things for me, so I only have to feed the relevant parts, and let Ruby do the Text-Formatting thing?</p> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong></p> <p>To be more specific: I want to put a corporation logo on the first page (DIN-A4-format, but may also be letter) on a specific position, also the footer on every page and the adress-box on the first page. all the rest should be free floating text blocks with left-right-justification, bold words in the middle of texts.</p> <p>something like </p> <pre><code>pdf.column.blocktext("Hello Mr. P\nwe have [b]good news[/b] for you. bla bla bla and so on. Please keep this text together (no page break)..."); pdf.column.floatingblock("This is another block, that should be printed, and can be broken over more than one column..."); </code></pre> <p>which should render the text in the corporate font on the paper, justified, and wrapping neatly to the next column/page if it reaches the bottom of the page.</p> <p>Thinking about it, this is exactly, what LaTeX is for.</p>
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