<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv1829431970">I am not a very experienced developer, but I was able to learn and use PDF::Reuse. I made a PDF template (11 page report) that I needed to intersperse data throughout. Using Catalyst::View::PDF::Reuse I was able to achieve a good result. I believe it is intended to be a reuse (of a PDF template) rather than a PDF creation tool, but it would work for that as well. To use with a report was a little tougher as I had to be creative to do wrapping. It is probably best to use where the location to place values on a template remains consistent (invoice, certificate).<br><br>I use Debian stable, and there is a package of PDF::Reuse, libpdf-reuse-perl, that can be installed. Catalyst::View::PDF::Reuse can then be install with dh-make-perl.<br><br>S. Kiehn<br><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 3/5/10, Charlie Garrison
<i><garrison@zeta.org.au></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Charlie Garrison <garrison@zeta.org.au><br>Subject: [Catalyst] Which C::View::PDF should I use?<br>To: "The elegant MVC web framework" <catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk><br>Date: Friday, March 5, 2010, 5:38 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Good afternoon,<br><br>Both of these seem to be almost identical.<br><br> Catalyst::View::PDF::Reuse<br> Catalyst::View::PDF::API2<br><br>Is one better to use than the other? C::V::PDF::API2 has been
updated more recently, but other than that I can't see why I would choose one over the other.<br><br>Or is really a choice of PDF::Reuse vs PDF::API2 which then dictates the View to use? It looks like PDF::Reuse might be a wrapper for PDF::API2, but I'm not really sure.<br><br>I'm not looking to create PDFs from code, I'll be using an existing PDF and replacing values. And both C::V::P::Reuse & C::V::P::API2 seem to handle that in effectively the same way.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Charlie<br><br>-- Ꮚ Charlie Garrison ♊ <<a rel="nofollow">garrison@zeta.org.au</a>><br> 〠 PO Box 141, Windsor, NSW 2756, Australia<br><br>O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt">http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>List: <a
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