[Catalyst] How create a PDF report?

[ryan lauterbach]

catalyst-bounces at lists.rawmode.org wrote on 06/09/2006 05:37:04 AM:
>>>> 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?.
>>>>
>>>>         
I did something similar a while back, I didn't know about Latex or any 
other PDF generation method.  Just used htmldoc to process the the html 
output from TT:

... in your controller

  # generate the html body
 $c->forward( $c->view('TT') );

   # write to tmp file as I couldn't get my version of htmldoc to work 
correctly from STDIN
    my $tmp = "/tmp/pdf_tmp.$$.html";
    open F, ">$tmp" or die "Can't write: $!";
    print F $c->res->body;
    close F;

    $c->res->header('Content-Type' => 'application/pdf');
    $c->res->header('Content-Disposition' => qq[inline; 
filename="$filename"]);
    open PDF, '-|', (qw</usr/bin/htmldoc --quiet>, @args, qw<
        --charset iso-8859-1 --footer .1. --size a4 --format pdf14
        --portrait --size a4 --format pdf14 --portrait --webpage>, $tmp)
        or die "Open: $!";

    local $/;
    my $out = <PDF>;
    close PDF;

    $c->res->body($out);
    unlink $tmp;



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