[Catalyst] How create a PDF report?

[Wade.Stuart at fallon.com]

catalyst-bounces at lists.rawmode.org wrote on 06/09/2006 05:37:04 AM:

> Wade.Stuart at fallon.com wrote:
> > catalyst-bounces at lists.rawmode.org wrote on 06/08/2006 09:23:10 AM:
> >
> >
> >> Christian Sánchez wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi, I'm been using Catalyst recently to make a little application and
> >>> I want to create a PDF report, I have it using TT, Is there a way to
> >>> make it in PDF format?. I was reading the documentation but I didn't
> >>> found (or maybe didn't see ) something about that, I also search in
> >>> CPAN but I didn't see some module or plugin for this. How can I do
> >>> this? Is there a module or documentation about this?.
> >>>
> >> Have you looked at PDF::Template?
> >>
> > Or if you are comfortable with Latex...
> >
> > http://search.cpan.org/~andrewf/Template-Latex-2.16
/lib/Template/Latex.pm
> >
> Note that Template-Latex currently only runs latex (or pdflatex) once on
> the source, which  means that features like table of contents and
> forward references, which require repeated runs, will not work, neither
> will it run bibtex or makeindex, so you don't get bibliographies or an
> index.  That said pdflatex can generate very nice PDFs  -- I have
> typeset an illustrated cookery book with LaTeX, generating camera ready
> copy that was used directly by our publisher's printers, and we also
> generate nicely typeset price lists with Catalyst, DBI and TT2.
>
> I have just taken over as maintainer of the module and will be adding
> functionality (that I had as a patch to an earlier version of TT2) to
> run bibtex and makeindex if it is detected that they are needed, and to
> re-run latex to resolve forward references and table of contents.  I
> hope to have a new version out in a week or so which will be "all
> singing and dancing".
>
> Regards
> Andrew

Thanks for the info!  I have only ever used it for simple documents and
had never looked at doing TOC etc.  it is good to know it is being
extended in these areas.