APM: Creating PDF with Perl

[Sam Foster]

Does anyone know if there's a fop for perl? (Formatting Objects 
Processor).. I used fop in a java environment recently and was impressed 
with the whole concept. Its a little slow, but from the point of view of 
authoring and formatting I was just creating XSLT stylesheets to 
generate XSL:FO from my XML, which fop turned into PDF for me. There 
were quite a few stylesheets out there to leverage and its all well 
documented. Much of our XML was actually HTML, just run through tidy to 
ensure XHTML validity (or at least well-formedness)
Ok, for a one-off document its a lot of setup, but in an context where 
you have existing content that needs to be maintained and pushed out to 
different formats repeatedly, where formatting control is important, its 
the way to go.

(that's a lot of acronyms in not many sentences)

Sam

David Bluestein II wrote:

> Okay, I'm looking to create PDF files from Perl. I know there is 
> PDF::API2 module, but didn't know if anyone else had found a more 
> elegant solution to this problem. I've also done the Latex to PDF, but 
> am seeking if there is a better solution.
>
> David
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