pdflatex then creates a .pdf file, and you write the name
to the screen.
nTip If you don??™t want to write to a file with the same name as your input file, you can use the --job-name
switch to specify another file name. For example, adding --job-name my_report to the pdflatex command
would make pdflatex write to my_report.pdf.
Summary
eBay is a vast world marketplace with a rich set of developer APIs. In this chapter, you
used eBay??™s REST API. You saw how you can use Ruby and Hpricot to easily perform
searches on eBay??™s vast selection of goods and then package the results into a report
generated as a PDF file by LaTeX.
The next chapter??™s example shows how you can take data from PayPal and use
MySQL and Markaby to create an HTML report detailing your spending habits.
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Tracking Expenditures with
PayPal
PayPal is an e-commerce service that facilitates the electronic transfer of monies via the
Internet. Often, PayPal is used by merchants as an easy way to accept credit cards without
a merchant account.
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