On April 3, 2002 12:43 pm, Bill McCabe wrote: > I have a large number of mod_perl modules that connect to various > databases and generate workflow performance reports for my organization. > I give the users 3 output options: HTML, Excel > (Spreadsheet::WriteExcel), and PDF. For PDF output I've been using > PDF::Create, which has been at version .01 since 1999. It has worked > flawlessly for my purposes for a couple of years, but is very limited. > In fine form-follows-function fashion, the end users would now like the > PDF output gussied up with graphics, etc. Does anyone have any strong > (positive or negative) recommendations for which module(s) I should > migrate to?
We've been using the Text::PDF modules here ourselves on several projects, all with great success. Is a bit low-level, though, which may not be quite what you're looking for. There's also a Text::PDF::API2 package on CPAN which takes the low-level stuff and presents a higher-level API to help you in building up your PDF documents. We needed something that'd give us ultimate low-level control over PDF entities so we went with Text::PDF ourselves, but both of them work quite well. -- Graham TerMarsch Howling Frog Internet Development, Inc. http://www.howlingfrog.com // ----------------------------------------------------------------- // DEC diagnostics would run on a dead whale. -- Mel Ferentz // -----------------------------------------------------------------
