Re: Printing from Perl in Windows

You can write Postscript directly, but these days PDF is more popular. There are some nice modules to work with PDF. For example, PDF::Report looks like it might do what you want. ActiveState has a few PDF modules including PDF::Labels.

It should work perfectly the first time! - toma

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Re: Re: Printing from Perl in Windows by schweini (Friar) on Feb 17, 2003 at 05:05 UTC
okay - i guess that makes my first post obsolete. these modules (seem to) rock! is there any easy way to print the generated .pdfs without having to open them in a browser or Acrobat Reader? beacause if there is, i have some serious re-coding to to do!	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Printing from Perl in Windows by toma (Vicar) on Feb 17, 2003 at 07:00 UTC
I use ghostscript for batch processing of PDF and Postscript documents. It is easy to make printouts, create bitmaps, perform conversions, etc. Ghostscript is a very active project at SourceForge I found but have not tried a Ghostscript perl module on the news and community site for Ghostscript. These tools are multiplatform. I have had great success with them! It should work perfectly the first time! - toma	[reply]