Paul You should be able to add some perl code into LaTeX ...or using a perl Library .
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=117986 PDF::CREATE > http://search.cpan.org/~szabgab/PDF-Create-1.08/lib/PDF/Create.pm http://rick.measham.id.au/pdf-api2/ PDF::API2. > http://search.cpan.org/~ssimms/PDF-API2-2.020/lib/PDF/API2.pm http://rick.measham.id.au/pdf-api2/pdf-api2.txt http://rick.measham.id.au/pdf-api2/pdf-api2.pdf LaTeX > PerlTeX https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb25-2/tb81pakin.pdf http://www.pytex.org/ http://www.pytex.org/doc/index.html https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.text.tex/z9yVRS5-dKA PythonTex http://ctan.mackichan.com/macros/latex/contrib/pythontex/pythontex.pdf Sweave and Pweave http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/12/20/basics-of-sweave-and-pweave/ http://mpastell.com/pweave/docs.html http://iaingallagher.tumblr.com/post/41359279059/python-pweave-and-pandoc-howto http://yihui.name/knitr/ http://www.conceptsolutionsbc.com/perl-articles-mainmenu-41/25-modules-and-packages/63-generating-pdf-documents Hope this helps Paul Cheers Justin On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: > I know in this day of web pages and mobile devices, actual paper output is > passé. But on occasion it is needed. > > Is there a (relatively easy) way to create a PDF or other printable document > out of Perl? I don't need anything too fancy (read: I don't really want to > specify the coordinates of everything unless absolutely required) but I do > need pagination, and column/row lines. > > Anyone worked on something similar? Any hints/tips greatly appreciated! > > Thanks! > Paul > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- ------------------------------------- Justin W Elam ### -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
