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Re: automating website maintenance

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From: Bill
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 20:43
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If you're really hardcore, you could achieve scripted/unattended
creation of PDF file using Apache FOP (see
http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html).  I have done this before and it
works well, but you must be willing to learn a bit about Java and XML.

Bill McMilleon
mcmilwj@NO-hotmail-SPAM.com
Brainbench MVP for HTML
http://www.brainbench.com/

On Wed, 09 May 2001 15:09:15 GMT, "res0673o" <res0673o@gte.net> wrote:

>Here's what I'm looking for:  I want a program or script that will go to
>many predefined servers and files of various types and create a pdf file on
>another server with the push of a button.
>
>I know Adobe will do this if they make postscript files but I want to
>automate that step as well.  Can anyone send me in the right direction?
>
>Nicole and Jim Johnson
>Our Website:  http://communities.msn.com/EriksONE/homepage
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From: mcmilwj@hotmail.com (Bill)
Newsgroups: ab.software.developers,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html,microsoft.public.webdesign.html,netscape.public.dev.xml
Subject: Re: automating website maintenance
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 20:43:30 GMT
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