Re: How to include HTML or PDF in plot

Hi Kristof,

if you need print (E)PS from HTML/PHP you can use a PHP library like  
http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.ps.php

Regards, Eduardo.-

PD: at some point, when your done, I'd like you to tell us all the  
tricks you used to make your plot :)

Quoting Kristof Koch <[email protected]>:

> 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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