in reply to (wil) Re: HTML input to PDF outputin thread HTML input to PDF output
Don't create them on the fly then. Pre-create them with a cron job, or only when an item is updated.
Seriously, try out HTMLDoc. It gives very good output, and will save you huge amounts of time trying to get this to work in perl.
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