On Mar 6, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Sabine Kn�fel <sabine.knoefel@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Is it possible to use the pdf generator without Pier?
-> creating pdfs from smalltalk?
Could that be an alternative to Artefact?

For pdf it does Pier -> Latex -> PDF

But PDF generation there are options:

Artefact, for Pharo and the right thing for report generation:

http://astares.blogspot.fr/2012/04/oliver-created-pdf-framework-for-pharo.html