Hi everyone, Today I am stuck with PDF::API2. Although seeming very powerful, the module documentation is horridly lacking. I was able to figure a great deal of what I need by directly examining the source, however some issues are left unsolved:
1. Is there a way to get the (x,y) pos and maybe more attributes of an already processed object? I looked all over the place - doesn't look like there is such a function. Even if I put every single line and dot into a separate handler - the dump of the structure still does not yield anything. I need this to be able to do background hilighting - e.g. I placed some text through handler $some_text, I pass it to the subroutine, it extracts the starting position, the alignment and the width of the text and creates an ellipse behind it with a certain fillcolor. I actually have more uses for that, but this is the main one. 2. I don't really understand the entire concept of objectifying content elements - I can have a $paragraph object handler and use ->text in conjunction with ->nl to write out an entire paragraph, or I can make a separate handler for each line - the output doesn't seem to change. In this case - why the need/possibility for separate handlers? 3. Is there a difference between methods ->gfx->textlabel and ->text ? I understand they have a different syntax but they seem to do the same thing in the end. 4. Is there vertical alignment for text? Or the font is always centered between the zone denoted by ->lead ? I have seen questions about PDF::API2 on this list before, and here and there people were suggested to try other modules. Unfortunately PDF::API2::Lite has 0 documentation and PDF::Report does not seem to be able to do all the graphics that I would eventually need in my case. So I am stuck with the vanilla API2. Any help/comments/and most importantly references to somewhat complete documentation/examples would be appreciated. Thank you Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
