[pgh-pm] PDF Generation from HTML

[brian janaszek]

Hello...

I've been a longtime lurker, and now I'd like to solicit some opinions.  
Here's the problem...

I've signed on to help an online journal generate PDF versions of their 
articles.  The journal uses a hacked up version of Movable Type for 
content management.  I've implemented a so-so solution with PHP and the 
FPDF library (www.fpdf.org), but it doesn't handle Unicode very well 
(and there's a possibility that articles could contain non-English 
characters), and it can only handle rudimentary HTML layouts.  I've done 
some PDF generation work with PDFLib, but unfortunately, that is not 
option due to the cost.  My sense is that something better exists in the 
Perl universe thanks to better Unicode handling.

I've seen a few promising modules on CPAN, and I'm curious if anyone has 
used any of them and had any luck with them.

Thanks!
brian