For ten years I have been generating billings for me and my wife in this way:
- Create TeX template with LyX or by hand
- Using in this source placeholder text
Then:
cat template | sed s/placeholder1/somevalue1/ |sed s/placeholder2/somevalue2 ... > output.tex pdflatex output.tex
Sadly in last years this process is becoming more and more difficult because TeX packages are becoming larger and larger (don't know why, but a full TeX installation on Ubuntu is almost 3 GB), and I always get lots of errors in the generation.
So, since I can control all the processes involved, is there a better (easier/more portable) way to create the template and then fill it with fields and create a PDF?
html2ps
->ps2pdf
but LaTeX is probably the best solution. – terdon♦ Jan 16 '14 at 13:14