You need to sneak your PDFColumn method into the PDF::Create::Page package. The cheap and easy way to do this is to say:

sub PDF::Create::Page::PDFColumn {
  my $self = shift;
# get the hashref of parameters:
  my $params = shift;
# ...
}

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Thus, when you say $page->PDFColumn, perl looks up what class $page is (I'm guessing it's a PDF::Create::Page) and attempts to call PDF::Create::Page::PDFColumn with $page as the first argument. Luckily, you've given perl such a method, so it's all happy.

Update: Note that this is slightly sleazy -- if this is permanent code, you're better off using Ovid's method (no pun intended)

perl -pe '"I lo*`+$^X$\"$]!$/"=~m%(.*)%s;$_=$1;y^`+*^e v^#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'

In reply to Re: Making a function callable on an object by Chmrr
in thread Making a function callable on an object by George_Sherston

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