[thelist] Generating PDFs in CGI
John Handelaar
genghis at members.evolt.org
Sat Sep 1 12:04:44 CDT 2001
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> Subject: [thelist] Generating PDFs in CGI
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> I want to generate custom documents for users to print.
>
> I've noticed that many applications generate PostScript and then
> use Ghostscript (or Distiller) to convert the file to PDF.
>
> Is generating PDFs *directly* such a bear that I ought to take this
> approach? (FWIW, I was planning to write this in C, but doing it in
> PERL is not a problem if there is a good reason.)
One good reason would be that someone's already done it for you :-)
There's a PDF module on CPAN
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