Thanks sundial,
I have been practically living on the cpan website the past couple days. You can see some of what I have been working on at this node:
tangent was a huge help in getting me to writing pdf to pdf. It is not quite the format I was envisioning right now, but it was way further than I was. As far as the potential job, I'll have to wait and see from what they think from the scripts that I have turned in. Most of the credit goes to you guys, honestly, for doing some of these things in the past and having sample code available on this site. I am still quite a n00b at this point :)
peace,
PerlSufi