On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Steve Kleiman <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using iText (http://itextpdf.com/) after using PDF::API2 for years. > API2 hasn't grown and even once you know it, it's tricky to use. The > community is inactive. > > iText is Java and the community is vibrant. I'll have my Catalyst app > assemble a whole bunch of data and ship it to iText as a JSON object (iText > reads XML, too). Then I have a program I wrote in Java suck in the JSON and > render the PDF. It's way faster than Perl and there's all sorts of handy > features that make doc generation easier. >
I confirm that iText works well. I've been using the C#/.NET version which is API-identical to the Java version, and it's very good for producing templated PDFs. Plenty of docs and examples too, plus the 'iText in Action' book. - Chris _______________________________________________ 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/
