I am not a very experienced developer, but I was able to learn and use PDF::Reuse. I made a PDF template (11 page report) that I needed to intersperse data throughout. Using Catalyst::View::PDF::Reuse I was able to achieve a good result. I believe it is intended to be a reuse (of a PDF template) rather than a PDF creation tool, but it would work for that as well. To use with a report was a little tougher as I had to be creative to do wrapping. It is probably best to use where the location to place values on a template remains consistent (invoice, certificate).
I use Debian stable, and there is a package of PDF::Reuse, libpdf-reuse-perl, that can be installed. Catalyst::View::PDF::Reuse can then be install with dh-make-perl. S. Kiehn --- On Fri, 3/5/10, Charlie Garrison <[email protected]> wrote: From: Charlie Garrison <[email protected]> Subject: [Catalyst] Which C::View::PDF should I use? To: "The elegant MVC web framework" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, March 5, 2010, 5:38 AM Good afternoon, Both of these seem to be almost identical. Catalyst::View::PDF::Reuse Catalyst::View::PDF::API2 Is one better to use than the other? C::V::PDF::API2 has been updated more recently, but other than that I can't see why I would choose one over the other. Or is really a choice of PDF::Reuse vs PDF::API2 which then dictates the View to use? It looks like PDF::Reuse might be a wrapper for PDF::API2, but I'm not really sure. I'm not looking to create PDFs from code, I'll be using an existing PDF and replacing values. And both C::V::P::Reuse & C::V::P::API2 seem to handle that in effectively the same way. Thanks, Charlie -- Ꮚ Charlie Garrison ♊ <[email protected]> 〠 PO Box 141, Windsor, NSW 2756, Australia O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
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