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Re: Terminate new line with hyphen in PDF report

by codiac (Beadle)
on Jun 26, 2015 at 10:57 UTC ( #1132124=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Terminate new line with hyphen in PDF report

Writing layout engines is a huge amount of work, do you really want to spend a *lot* of time doing that?

If not, make your perl program emit HTML and then use wkhtmltopdf or similar to convert it in to a PDF. CSS is a lot easier for getting exact pixels widths for text boxes.

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