On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:28:07AM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
My *favourite* approach, which is almost certainly not the consensus answer,
is
to generate a LaTeX document (e.g. using Template.pm) and then run that
through
xelatex to generate a PDF. This does however require you to learn
On 21 April 2013 20:06, Leo Lapworth l...@cuckoo.org wrote:
On 21 April 2013 12:51, Roger Bell_West ro...@firedrake.org wrote:
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 07:43:11AM -0400, Mark Fowler wrote:
I know I'm going to want to create the document from scratch, not fill in
a
template, and I'm probably
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 07:43:11AM -0400, Mark Fowler wrote:
In a few weeks I'm going to want to be creating PDFs from Perl, something I
haven't done in a few years. What's the recommended approach these days?
My *favourite* approach, which is almost certainly not the consensus answer, is
to
Similarly one can use pandoc (markdown to pdf and many other formats including
pod and TeX) in the same way. http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc
I really like pandoc, although it is not bug free.
On 22/04/2013, at 8:28 PM, Peter Corlett wrote:
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 07:43:11AM -0400, Mark Fowler
On a similar subject, what PDF (or even text, assuming I can find something to
extract the text on a page by page basis) indexing solutions are there out
there in Perl?
On 22 Apr 2013, at 11:42, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote:
Similarly one can use pandoc (markdown to pdf and many other
If you want full support for unicode strings and a good control of layout,
I found that the simpliest solution is to use xelatex.
I didn't find PDF::API2 fits in a multilingual environment.
Also, http://www.pdflib.com/ is ok (very good layout capabities, but it's a
commercial product), although
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:45:43AM +0100, Mike Whitaker wrote:
On a similar subject, what PDF (or even text, assuming I can find something to
extract the text on a page by page basis) indexing solutions are there out
there in Perl?
pdftotext and then throw the text at a generic indexing
With an optional job queue and expensive OCR package deal with scanned document.
On 22/04/2013, at 8:57 PM, Roger Bell_West wrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:45:43AM +0100, Mike Whitaker wrote:
On a similar subject, what PDF (or even text, assuming I can find something
to extract the text on
On 22 April 2013 11:51, Jérôme Étévé jerome.et...@gmail.com wrote:
If you want full support for unicode strings and a good control of layout,
I found that the simpliest solution is to use xelatex.
I didn't find PDF::API2 fits in a multilingual environment.
What problem did you have on this
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Roger Bell_West wrote:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:45:43AM +0100, Mike Whitaker wrote:
On a similar subject, what PDF (or even text, assuming I can find something to
extract the text on a page by page basis) indexing solutions are there out
there in Perl?
pdftotext and
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:28 AM, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote:
My *favourite* approach, which is almost certainly not the consensus answer,
is
to generate a LaTeX document (e.g. using Template.pm) and then run that
through
xelatex to generate a PDF. This does however require you
In a few weeks I'm going to want to be creating PDFs from Perl, something I
haven't done in a few years. What's the recommended approach these days?
I know I'm going to want to create the document from scratch, not fill in a
template, and I'm probably going to want multi-line text and basic
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 07:43:11AM -0400, Mark Fowler wrote:
I know I'm going to want to create the document from scratch, not fill in a
template, and I'm probably going to want multi-line text and basic drawing
(a horizontal line or two)
I tend to use PDF::API2: now unmaintained, but gets the
On 04/21/2013 12:43 PM, Mark Fowler wrote:
In a few weeks I'm going to want to be creating PDFs from Perl, something I
haven't done in a few years. What's the recommended approach these days?
I know I'm going to want to create the document from scratch, not fill in a
template, and I'm
On 2013-04-21 13:43, Mark Fowler wrote:
In a few weeks I'm going to want to be creating PDFs from Perl, something I
haven't done in a few years. What's the recommended approach these days?
I know I'm going to want to create the document from scratch, not fill in a
template, and I'm probably
I know I'm going to want to create the document from scratch, not fill in
a
template, and I'm probably going to want multi-line text and basic drawing
(a horizontal line or two)
I use Wx::PdfPrinter, part of the wxPerl framework.
It produces anything you want. I have a multi-page medical
+1 on wkhtml2pdf. I've used it in the past, it's awesome. Didn't know about
PDF::WebKit, will have to check that out!
On 21 April 2013 14:11, Ruud H.G. van Tol rv...@isolution.nl wrote:
On 2013-04-21 13:43, Mark Fowler wrote:
In a few weeks I'm going to want to be creating PDFs from Perl,
Dave Cross writes:
On 04/21/2013 12:43 PM, Mark Fowler wrote:
... creating PDFs from Perl ...
... when I want to do that I create an HTML document and convert it to
a PDF
Me too. If you are familiar with HTML and CSS, this may be less painful
than learning something else.
I'm currently
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:
I don't know if it's the recommended approach - but when I want to do that
I create an HTML document and convert it to a PDF using PDF::WebKit (
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