Interesting Utility for PDF Generation

[Brian Maher]

Hi Folks,

A buddy of mine has created an interesting utility that might fill a 
need for some folks.

Basically, for producing reports his utility takes an xml file that you 
generate (which follows his specs), passes it thru a command line 
utility and produces a PDF file.  This utility doesn't need the 
'pdflib' utility (which I understand costs a lot of money).

Check it out at http://www.x2p.us

Please note that he is hoping that this fills a niche and does expect 
that if you use it you will license it (i.e. purchase it) so his demo 
does include a "demo" watermark.

He wrote this when he needed to produce PDF documents for one of his 
customers where they wanted to replace custom preprinted forms (i.e. 
expensive forms) and the language he uses (PROGRESS .. I work for em) 
did not directly do what he needed to do.   The docs are for PROGRESS 
(and I think VB) but generating an XML file should be a piece of cake 
for Transcript programmers.  Right now it works (as far as I know) on 
Windows and maybe Unix.  I am bugging him on getting it running on OS X 
as that is what I am using.

Cheers, Brian

Please note that I have nothing to do with this utility other than the 
fact that I like it, find it useful and want to help him get the word 
out.