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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks, <o:p></o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></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:melbourne-pm-bounces+andrew_dent=dentaur.com@pm.org] <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<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Andrew,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This might not be the answer you're looking for, but anyway...<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I looked into PDF CPAN modules a few years ago and decided to use wkhtmltopdf instead.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/">https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Might be worth a look? Like I said though, might not be what you're looking for.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Ben<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></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:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Hi<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Is there a template module, or file that can be used with PDF::API2?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Or when PDF::API2 is used do people normally define the layout/style of the PDF file in their Perl code? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>In addition to PDF::API2, I looked at PDF::Template but it doesn’t look like it is maintained much anymore. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Cheers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#888888'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#888888'>Andrew<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>_______________________________________________<br>Melbourne-pm mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Melbourne-pm@pm.org">Melbourne-pm@pm.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pm" target="_blank">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pm</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>