Generating PDF documents from LISP

I want to generate a technical report from lisp (AllegroCL in my case) and I studied various packages/project to help me do this.

Requirements:

Need to generate a PDF
May create an intermediate format like RTF, Restructured TEXT, HTML, Word DOC or Latex
Need to be flexible to be able to add content throughout my application
Need to handle Multi-Page, Headers, Footers, Tables, inclusion of Images.

Possibilities:

cl-pdf and cl-typesetting: I checked this one out and it works for now, but is there a better alternative?
Some Latex generator, but ???

Question:

Do you know alternatives to easily generate (PDF) reports from lisp. What is the best workflow to go for?

Solution

we are using cl-pdf and cl-typesetting for the last 3 years and it has numerous issues... (like its confusion around encodings, or silently not rendering things that don't fit, or...) so, i don't recommend new development based on them.

currently we are in the process of moving all our export mechanisms to open document format. openoffice is all happy with it, and there's a plugin for ms office, too.

there's .fodt, the so called flat open document text format, which is a mere xml file describing a document. generating it is as easy as generating xml files.

you can also make parts of your document read-only with a password (insert a section and mark it read-only and protected by a password. when generating the xml, you can generate random hashes as password...).