Re: Reports and PERL

Create a template of your report in a word processor (WP, MSWORD, etc), save this template to a postscript (or pdf) file. Then in your PERL program, modify the place holders in your postscript or pdf template. Alternative, I use nroff text processing command within PERL. I will be interested

Re: Passing variables

This may sound too simple but this is the way I would have done it. In the front-end script, initialize the variables $VAR_1=; $VAR_2=; Then in the child scripts, you can change these variable $VAR_1=foo1; $VAR_2=foo2; If you use strict (what happens?). I have not tried it yet.

concatenation pdf files

Hello, Is there a script based routine for concatenation postscript or pdf files? So I want to do something like cat abc[1-3].pdf big_abc.pdf PS: Currently, I do: cat abc[1-3].ps big_abc.ps distill big_abc.ps I was wondering if there is anything out there that can help automat this.

Automating bookmarks in pdf

Has anyone tried automation the process of defining bookmarks in pdf files? Currently the only way that I know of is by using Acrobat's acroexchange GUI tool . What I wish to do is to enter something like: acroexchange -bookmark Foreign Debt Tables -page 3 abc.pdf abc_new.pdf

Question

Hello, Can anyone tell me why he/she will choice PERL over PHP? What is the difference between mysql and MySQL (case sensitivity)? Lastly what is a good book for a developer who is interested in implementing a WEB-based database using MySQL and PERL? PS: I have the Paul DuBois book on MySQL

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