Export snapshot

[Martin Baxter]

>On 3/7/05 7:09 AM, "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <fde101 at fjrhome.net> wrote:
>
>> If you are using OS X, put whatever it is on a card and try to print
>> the card, with a dialog box of course... you can click "Save as PDF"
>> from there (or "Preview" and use the Preview program to save it, if
>> pre-X.3).
>>
>>>> IS there a way to save as a pdf by chance?
>
>I was hoping there was a way to do it without user intervention. What I'm
>putting together is an app that will pick up email orders from my Miva
>Merchant store, generate a mailing label, pick up the actual pdf files to be
>printed and send that all on to my fulfillment center where they will
>produce and ship the item to the customer. They would like everything in pdf
>format.
>
>Currently I've used Sarah's POP library and Shao Sean's libSmtp & libEmail
>to build most of it and I have it working great. It's just that the mailing
>label is a jpg that I create using the export snapshot feature. I'm waiting
>to see if the fulfillment people will accept the jpg instead of a pdf.
>
>I'm using Rev 2.2.1-- I don't know if the latest version has anything that
>would help me in this regard.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Marty Knapp

I would look into PHP, which can create a pdf from a script. You could post
data from rev to a PHP script, which could then output or return a pdf, or
something along those lines.

Martin Baxter