>>>>> On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:06:44 +0200, "Perl Authors Upload Server" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List: > modid: PDFREP There is already a PDF:: and a Text::PDF:: namespace for working with PDF files. Wouldn't it be clever to name the module PDF::ReportWriter or some such? You could, of course, keep a PDFREP.pm that cares for backwards compatibility, but for the module list it would look much better to put the module into an already existing namespace. > DSLIP: Rdpfp > description: PDF Report Writer / Creator > userid: TWIBBLER (Trevor Ward) > chapterid: 23 (Miscellaneous_Modules) > communities: > egroup PDFREP > similar: > rationale: > This module is named PDFREP for the reason it is designed to allow > the creation of business reports directly into a PDF file. > It allows for the creation of the PDF from any platform without > having to use any Adobe software and allows for text and images > (graphs etc) to be output. It works very much like a business report > where the columns are set by using a fixed font and outputting text > with fixed spaces. > It was developed for a large company who's business software is > developed using Intranet technologies and they wanted a reporting > tool which allowed for PDF files to be output from within another > perl program grabbing the data from Oracle. > PDFREP was born to run on Unix and NT. > enteredby: TWIBBLER (Trevor Ward) > enteredon: Mon Jul 2 08:06:44 2001 GMT > The resulting entry would be: > PDFREP Rdpfp PDF Report Writer / Creator TWIBBLER > Thanks for registering, > The Pause Team > PS: The following links are only valid for module list maintainers: > Registration form with editing capabilities: > https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=add_mod&USERID=a0000000_898f205c6c7383c2&SUBMIT_pause99_add_mod_preview=1 > Immediate (one click) registration: > https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=add_mod&USERID=a0000000_898f205c6c7383c2&SUBMIT_pause99_add_mod_insertit=1 -- andreas
