On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 07:10 -0700, ChrisC wrote: > Hi!, > > Not sure if using PDF::API2 is a good choice or not. Little to no > doc.
Yeah it's very powerful, and *very* poorly documented. What's worse, one of the best tutorials ( http://rick.measham.id.au/pdf-api2/ ) has a big photo of John f'n Howard in it. There's no need to immortalise that war criminal. > In the "sub paging " I create the next page, but the > script does not print in the next page. Do I have to tell it to print > on page 2? If so how? For each page, you have to set up page dimensions, create new text and graphics objects, eg: # Set page dimensions $page->mediabox( $self->{page_width}, $self->{page_height} ); # Create a new txt object for the page $self->{txt} = $page->text; # Set y to the top of the page $self->{y} = $self->{page_height} - $self->{upper_margin}; # Create a new gfx object for our lines $self->{line} = $page->gfx; > How do I add an image, jpg etc. $gfx->image( $image, # The image $img_x_pos, # X $img_y_pos, # Y $imgdata->{scale_ratio} # scale ); You might want to look at my project, PDF::ReportWriter. It uses PDF::API2 to produce reports. It simplifies things considerably, does page breaking for you, grouping, etc. You can also use it just to render text ( keep calling $report->render_data with new text ). I use it for everything from Access-like reports to producing mail-merge letters ( it does alignment, justification, etc as well ). I would point you to my webpage, but I accidentally lost everything during a server upgrade, so you'll have to get it from CPAN. You can either use it directly, or view the source to see how to use PDF::API2. Let me know if you have any other questions, feature requests, etc. Dan -- Daniel Kasak IT Developer NUS Consulting Group Level 5, 77 Pacific Highway North Sydney, NSW, Australia 2060 T: (+61) 2 9922-7676 / F: (+61) 2 9922 7989 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.nusconsulting.com.au -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
