If I understand you correctly, just write your own class and have it inherit from PDF::Create. The following should get you started.

package PDF::Create::Column;

use strict;
use base ('PDF::Create');
use Font::AFM;

sub PDFColumn
{
    # get the hashref of parameters:
    my ( $self, $params ) = @_;

# rest of code here

    return $page;
}

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Then, in your regular code:

use PDF::Create::Column;

my $pdf = new PDF::Create::Column(
    filename => 'test.pdf',
    Version => 1.2,
    Author => 'George Sherston',
    Title => 'test',
);

my $page = $pdf->new_page('MediaBox' => [ 0, 0, 650, 920 ]);
my $fn = $pdf->font(
   'Subtype'  => 'Type1',
   'Encoding' => 'WinAnsiEncoding',
   'BaseFont' => 'Helvetica'
);

###           ###
# here we go!!! #
###           ###

$page = $pdf->PDFColumn(
    {
        page => $page,
        font => $fn,
        text => $text,
        right => 250,
        height => 850,
        fontsize => 15
    }
);
$pdf->close;

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That's untested, but should be what you're looking for.

Cheers,
Ovid

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

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