[Catalyst] Should I create a new view for rendering a pdf in browser?

[Alec Taylor]

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._. interested in displaying PDFs without a client-side PDF plugin?

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Steve <steve at matsch.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> My question is fairly straightforward - If I want to render a pdf in a
> browser, should I create a new Catalyst View?
>
> The background on this is that we think that rather than rendering an HTML
> version of these reports, and subsequently converting them to pdf, just
> create the pdf on the fly and render it in the browser.
>
> Extra credit for recommendations on pdf tools for this type of thing.  We've
> looked at PDF::Create, PDF::API2, PDF::Reuse, and also Prince (if we decide
> to convert from HTML).
>
> Thanks - Steve
>
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