Matt,
do you have a plan to release PDFLib.pm ?
Oleg
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lon Koenig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > I apologize for the OT post, but the members of this list seem to be
> > authoritive resource for all web/perl solutions.
> >
> > I'm currently bidding a project, and the client's all in favor of a
> > mod_perl solution. Phase 2 of the project requires on-the-fly pdf
> > creation.
> >
> > I've done page layout in other languages, so I'm not too concerned
> > about coding the thing. My question is:
> >
> > Does anyone have success/horror stories generating pdf files
> > under mod_perl?
> > Recommendations?
>
> About 6 months ago I had a good look at the various modules available for
> PDF creation (for on the fly conversion of XML to PDF using AxKit/mod_perl),
> and found that they all suffered from C-like interfaces (i.e. it was
> $pdf->start_page, $pdf->end_page, instead of that stuff being automatic),
> interface complexity (i.e. changing font and colour mirrored how the
> low-level PDF format worked), and very poor support for incorporating
> images. Anyway, so I wrote my own, based on pdflib (www.pdflib.com), called
> PDFLib.pm. The base pdflib comes with it's own interface called
> pdflib_pl.pm, but again it's a C-like interface. So PDFLib.pm is more OO.
> Well, I'm biased, but I think it works pretty well (though it's lacking
> support for graphics primitives right now), and I use it in AxKit's AxPoint
> package to create all my slideshows (see
> http://217.158.50.178/docs/presentations/tpc2001/).
>
> One bonus about PDFLib.pm is that the underlying PDF stuff is all done in C,
> so it's likely a bit faster than all the other (pure perl) options.
>
> I've heard good stuff about PDF::Create though (but I think that's one of
> the ones that didn't support images when I was looking).
>
> Matt.
>
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Regards,
Oleg
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