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• Ahhh... pdflib (Score:1)

  by ajtaylor (1283)

  I've done some pretty extensive work w/ pdflib and really like it. I have also made extensive use of the string_width function but for different uses. In my case, I'm laying out business cards and the address has to fit into a finite space. So I check the width at the curent font size w/ string_width, and if it's too large I incrementally shink the font size until it fits. Automatic abbreviation of Avenue, Boulevard, etc helps too. :-)

  I'll have to check out PDFLib.pm and see how it works and if it would b

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  • Re:Ahhh... pdflib (Score:2)

    by Matts (1087) on 2002.02.06 2:14 (#4147) Journal

    It uses 4.x I'm afraid.
    
    I'm not sure about "slick", but I much prefer an OO view of the world, where instead of typing PDF_foo($pdf, options), you type $pdf->foo(options). Just makes more sense to me. Plus it takes care of things like ending pages for you so you don't have to - pdflib really doesn't like it if you do something in the wrong order, so PDFLib.pm *tries* to accommodate that.

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    • Re:Ahhh... pdflib (Score:1)

      by ajtaylor (1283)

      Oh well. I'll definitely look into it more if/when I upgrade. Since I haven't bought a license yet, maybe soon is a good time to upgrade. :-)

      OO certainly makes sense for some things, and I think pdflib is definitely one of them. I'm interested in learning more about the auto page ending feature. Guess it's time to look at the docs, or have you released that code yet?

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      • Re:Ahhh... pdflib (Score:2)

        by Matts (1087)

        It's on CPAN. Along with the sweeet XML::Handler::AxPoint, which creates PDF presentations from XML.