Interesting Utility for PDF Generation

[Brian Maher]

Hi Andre,

> just found this article on devchannel
>
> http://tools.devchannel.org/devtoolschannel/04/03/02/183211.shtml
>
> it's about XML to PDF translation. Didn't read it,  but I think it has 
> to do with the topic.

My friend looked at this but decided that for his needs it just 
wouldn't work.  The XML structure is too complex, it needs to many 
pieces to run and when you are printing hundreds to thousands of 
invoices per day the overhead of repeatedly loading java becomes too 
much of a performance hit.  From his perspective the only advantage 
that has is that it is free.  These reasons are why he paid some 
friends of his to create his utility.  As his web site states, it was 
designed to replace preprinted forms.

Cheers, Brian