Alan Fry wrote:
>Pod::Pdf (on CPAN) was written largely to provide a quick and easy
>way of getting a reasonable looking hard copy of a 'pod'.[...]
>
>Although it is a 'cross-platform' module it was specifically designed
>for the Mac and in particular as a solution to the 'Shuck' printing
>problem. Just drag a file to a 'pod2pdf' droplet and there you are.
Which is as good a kick in the backside as any to finally form a couple of
sentences of appreciation for Alan's pod2pdf, which works brilliantly. It's
one of those few little utilities that consistently brings a smile to my
face when I use it: quick to run, with a clean (transparent!) interface and
great results. Definitely overkill for the one-page pods, given the three
pages of output, but for the real monsters --Date::Calc, Parse::RecDescent
-- it's beautiful. If anyone is still running the original, it's worth
updating to 1.2, as the later version seems to have fixed a few minor
problems.
[[ Note that the second module listed above doesn't run on MacPerl, which is
somewhat sad. I also note that Spreadsheet::WriteExcel now "requires"
Parse::RecDescent, yet the documentation claims "The module will work on the
majority of Windows, UNIX and Macintosh platforms". Anyone had more luck
than me with getting this to work with MacPerl? A simple
#!perl
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
gives the wholly expected version warning that originates in
Parse::RecDescent. Damian has already mentioned that there's no hope for
this module on pre-5.005 macs. Which probably means "back to the unix
drawing board for Spreadsheet::WriteExcel until 5.6.1" I suppose.]]
Cheers,
Paul
