[Catalyst] PDF creation in Catalyst?

David Morel david.morel at amakuru.net
Wed Oct 22 19:47:37 BST 2008


Le 22 oct. 08 à 20:25, Cory G Watson a écrit :

>
> On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:08 PM, 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? :-)
>
> This is more than likely referring to the fact that Catalyst is  
> output agnostic.
>
>> I'm a bit surprised that there's no Catalyst::View::Something::PDF  
>> by now, which makes me worry that it's hard.  Most days I'd be  
>> happy to look into this, but I'm under the scheduling gun right now  
>> in a fairly panic-inducing way, so quick and dirty is unusually  
>> appealing.
>>
>> I don't need to create PDF files for distribution, just something  
>> printable with more layout control than HTML is willing to give  
>> me.  Maybe PDF is a rabbit hole, and someone else has a bright idea?
>

Check webkit. I had a quick look there, seems promising: http://cutycapt.sourceforge.net/

David




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