At 2:28 PM +0000 3/26/01, Alan Fry was kind enough to write:
]There is Pod::Pdf on CPAN or http://www.afco.demon.co.uk which is
Perl translating 'pod' into 'PDF'. The script is in two parts which
are reasonably clearly separated; the first part dealing with
translating the 'pod' mark-up and the second part with writing the
PDF output.
I'm hoping to create graphics and layouts. Otherwise, I would just
offer text files.
]In principle I see no reason why you couldn't write PDF "on the fly"
from any text source. You don't *have* to LZW or ZIP encode: you will
see Pod::Pdf makes no attempt to do so. It is just a space-saving
option. Acrobat 'Reader' will accept text un-encoded or encoded in a
variety of ways. I guess most other readers do likewise.
I actually HAVE written a module that writes limited PDFs on-the-fly:
text, and some lines. See http://www.seercom.com/SUS/432
However, the next step is embedding images, which must be LZW
compressed binaries, and I didn't want to reinvent the wheel.
-Graeme.
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