PDF creation?

2013-04-21 Thread Mark Fowler
In a few weeks I'm going to want to be creating PDFs from Perl, something I haven't done in a few years. What's the recommended approach these days? I know I'm going to want to create the document from scratch, not fill in a template, and I'm probably going to want multi-line text and basic

Re: PDF creation?

2013-04-21 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 07:43:11AM -0400, Mark Fowler wrote: I know I'm going to want to create the document from scratch, not fill in a template, and I'm probably going to want multi-line text and basic drawing (a horizontal line or two) I tend to use PDF::API2: now unmaintained, but gets the

Re: PDF creation?

2013-04-21 Thread Dave Cross
On 04/21/2013 12:43 PM, Mark Fowler wrote: In a few weeks I'm going to want to be creating PDFs from Perl, something I haven't done in a few years. What's the recommended approach these days? I know I'm going to want to create the document from scratch, not fill in a template, and I'm

Re: PDF creation?

2013-04-21 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
On 2013-04-21 13:43, Mark Fowler wrote: In a few weeks I'm going to want to be creating PDFs from Perl, something I haven't done in a few years. What's the recommended approach these days? I know I'm going to want to create the document from scratch, not fill in a template, and I'm probably

RE: PDF creation?

2013-04-21 Thread Steve Cookson
I know I'm going to want to create the document from scratch, not fill in a template, and I'm probably going to want multi-line text and basic drawing (a horizontal line or two) I use Wx::PdfPrinter, part of the wxPerl framework. It produces anything you want. I have a multi-page medical

Re: PDF creation?

2013-04-21 Thread Ben Vinnerd
+1 on wkhtml2pdf. I've used it in the past, it's awesome. Didn't know about PDF::WebKit, will have to check that out! On 21 April 2013 14:11, Ruud H.G. van Tol rv...@isolution.nl wrote: On 2013-04-21 13:43, Mark Fowler wrote: In a few weeks I'm going to want to be creating PDFs from Perl,

Re: PDF creation?

2013-04-21 Thread Smylers
Dave Cross writes: On 04/21/2013 12:43 PM, Mark Fowler wrote: ... creating PDFs from Perl ... ... when I want to do that I create an HTML document and convert it to a PDF Me too. If you are familiar with HTML and CSS, this may be less painful than learning something else. I'm currently

Re: PDF creation?

2013-04-21 Thread Mark Fowler
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: I don't know if it's the recommended approach - but when I want to do that I create an HTML document and convert it to a PDF using PDF::WebKit (