Re: using perl to print out tomorrow's list

That is quite a job you have set yourself!

Personally I would not use HTML as the file-format. PDF seems better suited for something you want to print.

As it is very difficult to write raw-PDF code, I'd go through LaTeX first.

I'd make a template which will be the framework and then have a Perl-script fill in the variable data. LaTeX will then compile it into a nice pdf file.

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Re^2: using perl to print out tomorrow's list by tobyink (Canon) on Nov 07, 2014 at 20:28 UTC
Actually HTML's pretty awesome for print if you write a print stylesheet specifying margins, page break rules, etc. See Paged media in the CSS 2.1 spec. You're not going to get pixel-precise positioning of each character, but for most documents you don't need that anyway. toby döt ink	[reply]