[Koha-devel] Unicode and PDF... a work-around?

[Colin Campbell]

On 09/01/11 14:56, Ian Walls wrote:
> Fellow developers,
> 

> 
> This got me thinking about a potential alternative.  Perhaps we could offer
> a 4th Label Creator output option (in addition to PDF, CSV and XML), of
> HTML.  Using similar markup that we use for print holds and overdues, it may
> be possible to recreate the page on the browser window in a format that
> anyone can read (and if they can't, their local machine can install the
> necessary fonts or language packs).  There are numerous Print To PDF options
> for all kinds of browsers and platforms, so the end result could be the
> same, only without our code having to do the heavy PDF lifting.
I did this for a site to print orders, using Template::Toolkit to
generate the document and firefox plugins to generate pdfs and print.
Colin

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