Hey,<div><br></div><div>It's not available as part of the Ubuntu distro (i think), but you can download the wkhtmltopdf binary (there are 2 versions: 32bit and 64bit).</div><div><br></div><div>Have a look at wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2 and wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-amd64.tar.bz2 on the Downloads page.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You can run the binary like:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">/wkhtmltopdf-amd64 --footer-center 'Page [page] of [topage]' --footer-font-size 8 my.html my.pdf</font></div>
<div><br></div><div>Ben</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 March 2013 12:27, Andrew Dent <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew_dent@dentaur.com" target="_blank">andrew_dent@dentaur.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Thanks, <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">For this project creating a HTML file and then converting that file to a PDF would be ok. I can delete the HTML file after the conversion. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">But the HTML to PDF tool needs to be available in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Unfortunately it doesn’t look like wkhtmltopdf is available for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">There is only one type of PDF file to create, so I can bundle all the Perl code defining the layout of the PDF into a module. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">But it would be nice to have a template file defining the PDF layout that is separate to the code. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Melbourne-pm [mailto:<a href="mailto:melbourne-pm-bounces%2Bandrew_dent" target="_blank">melbourne-pm-bounces+andrew_dent</a>=<a href="mailto:dentaur.com@pm.org" target="_blank">dentaur.com@pm.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ben Vinnerd<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 19 March 2013 10:48 PM<br><b>To:</b> Melbourne Perlmongers<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Melbourne-pm] PDF::API2<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
Hi Andrew,<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">This might not be the answer you're looking for, but anyway...<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I looked into PDF CPAN modules a few years ago and decided to use wkhtmltopdf instead.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/" target="_blank">https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/</a><u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">It's great to generate PDF docs, and free. You just create an HTML page and run the wkhtmltopdf command.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div>
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<u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Might be worth a look? Like I said though, might not be what you're looking for.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
Ben<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 19 March 2013 11:22, Andrew Dent <<a href="mailto:andrew_dent@dentaur.com" target="_blank">andrew_dent@dentaur.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Is there a template module, or file that can be used with PDF::API2?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Or when PDF::API2 is used do people normally define the layout/style of the PDF file in their Perl code? <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve looked in the documentation, and googled, but I can’t find anything. Maybe I missed it. <span style="font-family:Wingdings">L</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
In addition to PDF::API2, I looked at PDF::Template but it doesn’t look like it is maintained much anymore. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Cheers<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#888888"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888">Andrew<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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