tweetiepooh:

It looks like PDF::Table should be able to do the job. It automatically adds pages to your PDF document as it needs to. When you generate the table, it returns the reference to the last page it created, the vertical position of the end of the table (y) on the last page, and the number of pages it added. So you should be able to continue generating your document, something like:

# all the setup stuff for PDF and PDF table

for my $table (@tables) {

   # Implementation left as an exercise to the reader  ;^)
   $data = make_table_data($table);

   # Generate the table
   my ($last_pg, $pg_cnt, $y) = $pdfTblGen->table($PDF, $cur_pg, $data
+, %settings);

   if ($y < FOO) {
      # Not enough space on the page for the next thing, so create a n
+ew page
      . . .
   }
   else {
      # Still plenty of space
      ... add stuff to page at $y + some whitespace ...
   }
}

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The documentation is a bit skimpy, but there are a couple examples in the distribution you can play with. I installed it a few minutes ago, looks legit.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re: Creating a PDF with multiple tables and where data items can spread multipage by roboticus
in thread Creating a PDF with multiple tables and where data items can spread multipage by tweetiepooh

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