[Catalyst] generating and redirecting to pdfs

Steve Rippl rippls at woodlandschools.org
Tue Oct 27 03:43:41 GMT 2009


On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 18:49 -0400, hkclark at gmail.com wrote:


> Hi Steve,
> 
> It sounds like you probably want to stick with something that's
> specific to LaTeX, so this may be of no help for you, but I thought I
> would pass it along just in case.  I have recently used Jon Allen's
> Catalyst::View::PDF::Reuse and found it to be excellent.  It's great
> for situations where you want to have a fancy "background PDF" that
> you then want to superimpose text on top of. 
> 
> Jon also has a nice presentation on the package at:
> http://www.pennysarcade.co.uk/files/Creating_PDF_files_with_Catalyst.pdf
> 
> Regards,
> Kennedy

Thanks for the input.  I came across Catalyst::View::PDF::API2 but couldn't 
get that to work for some reason.  I hadn't tried ..PDF::Reuse but right now 
HTML::HTMLDoc is working pretty well for me.

Thanks as well to Moritz for his insight...

Steve Rippl



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