[sf-perl] "Printer Friendly" versions - PDF?

[Joshua Wait]

Strange you should mention PDF. I just spent the
better part of my day banging my head against creating
PDFs in Perl.

Definitely go for PDF::API2. Some of the other modules
work okay, but don't provide the same feature set. The
documentation is absolutely horrible though.

I highly recommend this tutorial

http://www.printaform.com.au/clients/pdfapi2/

It made it work for me.

--JOSHUA

--- Herb Rubin <herbr at pfinders.com> wrote:

> I use enscript and create my own templates. Enscript
> comes with Linux.
> 
> I can draw lines and insert eps (encapsulated
> postscript) images.
> (gif2eps works well).
> 
> Herb
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:56, Jeffrey McDonald wrote:
> > I work at Genentech and support a large number of
> Perl applications
> > that provide employees with Stock Purchase and
> Stock Option
> > information.
> > 
> > I am being asked to develop “Printer Friendly�
> versions of these
> > pages.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > The only solution I can think of is to generate
> PDF’s that tightly
> > control the layout of the document.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > On CPAN I am able to find many modules – just
> don’t know which ones
> > might be best.
> > 
> > I was wondering if anyone has
> recommendations/experience with any of
> > them.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > One module I saw was able to take an HTML document
> and turn it into a
> > PDF – would really like to see how that might
> work.
> > 
> > I was thinking that I would have to generate the
> document line by line
> > just as I do the HTML.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
>
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