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

[Thomas Klausner]

Hi!

On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 03:59:50PM +0100, Jens Gassmann wrote:

> I use Catalyst::View::Wkhtmltopdf  - maybe Prince is better, but it is
> not open source like wkhtml. Also Catalyst::View::Wkhtmltopdf  supports
> Template Toolkit and could render your Templates without much
> modifications.

If you don't want to use an external binary, you could also use Webkit 
directly via Gtk3::Webkit though I'm not sure how stable / performant 
this is. Emmanuel gave a talk about this last weekend during the Twin 
City Perl Workshop: 
http://conferences.yapceurope.org/tcpw2011/talk/3836

Here's his script to take a screenshot in various formats:
https://github.com/potyl/Webkit/blob/master/screenshot.pl

I probably wouldn't embed this directly into Catalyst, but set up a 
seperate service, so maybe just using wkhtmltopdf is in fact simpler...

Greetings,
domm

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