How to include HTML or PDF in plot

Dear list,

the chart I'm plotting requires quite an extensive table of database driven information to be present on the left side of the plot. Currently I'm achieving this with a fair amount of Bash and pslegend magic.

It's a bit limited concerning the formatting of the data. For example changing background color of a line is impossible. I thought about generating the table outside of the GMT-suite and insert it via psimage. Unfortunately psimage takes only .ras and .eps as input. The workflow I came up with (non working at the moment) is

HTML & CSS > convert with "TCPDF" > PDF > convert with "pdftops" > EPS > plot with psimage

I'm sure I'll get in trouble with so much converting and bounding boxes being treated differently in different programs. There must be an easier way but I didn't find it so far. 

How would you tackle the problem?

All the best,
Kristof Koch




TCPDF: http://www.tcpdf.org/index.php
pdftops: http://poppler.freedesktop.org
Why pdftops and not pdf2ps: http://stefaanlippens.net/pdf2ps_vs_pdftops

Sample of the data driving pslegend:

N 2
L 7p 40 L @:6.5p:BGBW@::
L 7p 39 R 112ft / nil
N 9
L 7p 39 L N
L 7p 39 L 07
L 7p 39 L \040
L 7p 39 L \040
L 7p 39 C 1.8x45
L 7p 39 R \040
L 7p 39 R \040
L 7p 39 R 25
L 7p 39 R -
N 2
L 7p 40 L @:6.5p:BGSF@::
L 7p 39 R 165ft / 5-8
N 9
L 7p 39 L L
L 7p 39 L 09
L 7p 39 L \040
L 7p 39 L \040
L 7p 39 C 2.8x60
L 7p 39 R \040
L 7p 39 R \040
L 7p 39 R 27
L 7p 39 R C
...

Sample crop of current solution:


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