Actually that simplifies it somewhat. Any modern browser will work with the css 3 page breaks and such, you should be able to spit out regular HTML and have it work fine. Worst case is use html2ps and possibly ps2pdf (both perk scripts so windows is no problem) to get there, but if you just need a document that looks good and prints a certain way HTML + css should work fine.
On Sunday, January 19, 2014, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately the server and users are Windows systems (not my choice, > have to play with what I've been given). So I've got Perl and a web > browser, and whatever normal documents they can open. So that lets out > some solutions, sorry I should have specified. > > I have considered using CSS or something like XML/XSLT. A basic HTML > table would take care of a lot of the formatting. However, I need "do a > page break here" and to repeat the column headers on every page. (Well, I > can easily repeat headers in Firefox, but I can't guarantee what browser > the end users will use.) It's been a few years, buy my coworker told me he > couldn't reliably get HTML/CSS page breaks and column headers to work with > different browsers at the time. (Could be a different story now.) > > My next thought was PDF, as it is very geared toward printing. Though I > didn't really want to specify x/y coordinates for everything (that I was > seeing in examples), unless I had to, which is what prompted my ask. > > I just thought about Excel. I've done many programs with fairly simple > Spreadsheet::WriteExcel usage. This actually might work well. > set_h_pagebreaks() and set_border() new to me, but the documentation says > they will do the page breaks and the lines around cells that I need. I'm > already familiar with repeating headers. > > Paul > > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Michael Chaney < > [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> Personally, for simple pagination I output in HTML and then use html2ps >> to get it printable. Beyond that you can use the postscript or PDF >> modules, which I use in other cases. >> >> Michael >> >> >> On Saturday, January 18, 2014, Paul Boniol >> <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[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]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > 'nlug-talk%[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] <javascript:_e({}, > 'cvml', 'nlug-talk%[email protected]');>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Michael Darrin Chaney, Sr. [email protected] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- -- 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.
