major data processing into pdf

[Ben Pfaff]

"Marcel Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu> writes:

> Basically the way billing works is that a large data file gets spit out of the
> mainframe and this text file is used to print bills. They wonder if there is
> any way to turn manipulate the text file (scripts) and then create single PDF
> files for each bill. The PDF files then should be accessible via the web.

Why is a PDF file necessary?  Seems to me that plain text would
work fine for this.  Bills do not need to be pretty, they need to
be unambiguous.
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