creating RTF files on the fly?

[Kenneth R Irwin]

Hi folks -- 

Does anyone know of a good way to create RTF files on the fly (e.g. from
database output)? Our online ILL form writes to a database that is in turn
read by our ILL staff is cgi-generated HTML pages & printed out, but HTML
is just a little too wiggly to come out looking just like the regular ILL
forms. I'd like to make the formatting a little more consistent.

One solution that occured to me is to output as SGML >> DSSSL >> RTF, but
(a) that's a little arcane
(b) I don't know if i can do it all on the fly. (ie, ILL staff clicks on a
web link and up pops the RTF file). 

I'm hoping someone has a better solution before I try implementing that
bulkier one.

Thanks,
ken

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