I received a question from a workmate: "We're hoping to create some reports in PDF format to present some data, and we were hoping to use a Perl script to help us do this. The data will be in the form of text, tables and graphs."

I noticed some Perl monks nodes: Generating PDF, PDF via Perl?, Producing documents using Perl but these seem fairly old, so I was wondering what is the current state of play re PDF and Perl.

I get the impression that PDF::API2 is the way to go for serious PDF work. It seems an active SourceForge project. Is that right? Any other good alternatives?

I also noticed the O'Reilly book Perl Graphics Programming covers PDF a bit. Is it a good book? Any other good books on this subject?

In reply to PDF and Perl by eyepopslikeamosquito

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