[Catalyst] PDF creation in Catalyst?

[Ashley]

On Oct 22, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Kirby Krueger wrote:
> If you go to catalystframework.org, it says on the main page:
>
> 	And in case you want PNG or PDF output, you'll need just a few  
> lines...
>
> Can someone give me those few lines? :-)


I hope someone will have something more directly helpful with a code  
snippet (I'd love to see it too) but essentially this is a PDF  
question, not a Catalyst one excepting how to plug in another view in  
addition to your TT which is easy and in the docs.

If no one ends up having any good fish to offer, this is a good set  
of places to start casting the old rod n'reel.

  http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?pdf
  http://www.google.com/search?as_q=pdf 
+create&as_sitesearch=www.perlmonks.org (etc)
  http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?PDF::FromHTML (maybe? to take your  
current page output and run it into PDF though this might not give  
much control)

If the stuff isn't dynamic and you really can't wait, it might be  
faster to create them yourself from the HTML you've got (print to  
PDF, manipulate in Acrobat or something) and serve them as static files.

-Ashley