Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question regarding PDF generation, independant of CGI::App,
> so forgive me for temporarily hijacking the conversation.
>
> Once in a while we're asked to output a pdf file.. and sometimes it's
> important to know where the page breaks are. CSS allows you to tell
> where to page break in the printed version of an HTML document which
> is handy for files that you are generating statically.
What have you tried so far? Does HTMLDoc respect CSS page breaks when
converting HTML to PDF? If not, you might have to use something more low
level like PDF::API2 or PDF::Template.
I've used PDF::API2 before. It's powerful but very under-documented.
However there do exist some tutorials on perlmonks and other places that
you can look at.
> What I'm wondering is, has anyone found any good solutions for placing
> pagebreaks on a dynamic basis .. ie say a client has a list of members
> and they want to print those member addresses out with a bounding
> table around each to they look like little business cards. Of course i
> would not want one of these little business cards to be cut in half by
> a page boundry, and the cards can be of variable size depending upon
> how much address info is provided... no i'm babbling..
Using PDF::API2 you just add a new page like so:
my $pdf = PDF::API2->new();
my $page = $pdf->page(1);
# add some text
$page->gfx->textlabel(....);
$page->update();
# get a new page
$page = $pdf->page(2);
...
--
Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP
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