[MonoDevelop] How to make a PDF

[Jacek Ruzyczka]

Hi,

Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 23:33 schrieb Christian Ortiz:
> Hello,  i am fiinishing a sytem using monodevelop (mono1.2.6),  i have
> problems in reports:
> I am trying with HTML, but i have big problems because i need to control
> the pages, and it's diferent form each navegator (IE, Firefox, Opera,..)
> besides i tried with gecko sharp, i couldn't  in windows.
> i want to try making PDfs, Any idea where can i get information ???
>
I am myself gonna face the same issue in a couple of months, and I decided to 
delegate the report making job to pdfLaTeX, which itself is a native 
(non-.NET) app, but is available for a wide variety of platforms. It runs in 
batch mode and accepts plain text with markup symbols like \textbf{...} as 
input, so it's not a hard job to call it from within a .NET app. Once it's 
ready, you would then call your PDF viewer to display the report on the 
screen. pdfLaTeX's only serious drawback: Its markup language is quite 
complicated, which results in a steep learning curve.

Regards
Jacek Rużyczka