Re: Text formatting issues

2008-05-11 Thread Dr.Ruud
hotkitty schreef: > I've been reading through the modules and the link you provided but it > seems pretty involved. I don't think it should be very difficult: all > that I am trying to do is create a multi-page PDF file with text in > it. Isn't there an easier way to do that? Alternatives to cons

Re: Text formatting issues

2008-05-11 Thread Rob Dixon
hotkitty wrote: > > Well, it should be a pretty straightforward thing, right? No. Sizing and placing text in a page isn't trivial, and people pay huge amounts of money for DTP software to achieve it conveniently. > There has to be someone, somewhere that has taken text and created a pdf file > w

Re: Text formatting issues

2008-05-11 Thread hotkitty
On May 9, 11:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Dixon) wrote: > hotkittywrote: > > On May 7, 8:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Dixon) wrote: > >>hotkittywrote: > >>> First and foremost thanks for all the help I've received on this > >>> board, especially Gunnar who keeps this place running! > >>> I've com

Re: Text formatting issues

2008-05-11 Thread hotkitty
On May 9, 11:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Dixon) wrote: > hotkittywrote: > > On May 7, 8:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Dixon) wrote: > >>hotkittywrote: > >>> First and foremost thanks for all the help I've received on this > >>> board, especially Gunnar who keeps this place running! > >>> I've com

Re: Text formatting issues

2008-05-09 Thread Rob Dixon
hotkitty wrote: > On May 7, 8:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Dixon) wrote: >> hotkitty wrote: >>> First and foremost thanks for all the help I've received on this >>> board, especially Gunnar who keeps this place running! >>> I've come a long way in my code and am trying to format some text and >>>

Re: Text formatting issues

2008-05-09 Thread hotkitty
On May 7, 8:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Dixon) wrote: > hotkitty wrote: > > First and foremost thanks for all the help I've received on this > > board, especially Gunnar who keeps this place running! > > > I've come a long way in my code and am trying to format some text and > > then put it into

Re: Text formatting issues

2008-05-07 Thread Dr.Ruud
hotkitty schreef: > #!/usr/bin/perl Missing: use strict; > use warnings; > $main_text->text("$newtext"); Why quoted? -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Text formatting issues

2008-05-07 Thread Rob Dixon
hotkitty wrote: > First and foremost thanks for all the help I've received on this > board, especially Gunnar who keeps this place running! > > I've come a long way in my code and am trying to format some text and > then put it into a nice pdf file. My problem is putting the formatted > text into

Re: Text formatting issues

2008-05-07 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
hotkitty wrote: First and foremost thanks for all the help I've received on this board, especially Gunnar who keeps this place running! Thanks, but this place is kept running by quite a few helpful contributors. I've come a long way in my code and am trying to format some text and then put it

Text formatting issues

2008-05-07 Thread hotkitty
First and foremost thanks for all the help I've received on this board, especially Gunnar who keeps this place running! I've come a long way in my code and am trying to format some text and then put it into a nice pdf file. My problem is putting the formatted text into the pdf and for it to displa