[thelist] Generating PDFs in CGI

John Handelaar genghis at members.evolt.org
Sat Sep 1 12:04:44 CDT 2001


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> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of deke 
> Sent: 31 August 2001 18:04
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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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