I know I can use help with PDF::Template, Excel::Template, and Graph::Template.

• Graph::Template simply needs to have hooks for all the features GD::Graph allows.
• Excel::Template has two major pushes
  1. finishing out the formatting options
  2. allowing back-references that are auto-resolved in formulas.
• PDF::Template has two major pushes
  1. adding in iterative formatting (ala Excel::Template)
  2. removing the need for the most common context calls.
  Plus, I'd love to remove the requirement of using PDFLib and allow you use use PDF::API2 as well.

The main sticking point in E::T and P::T is the design of the template layout. It's not that I don't know how to add the capabilities, it's that I can't figure out how to get the capabilities to be easily used by the template writer.

In addition, there are a ton of commonalities with how I've built the three distributions (PDF::Template was the base for the other two), so I'd like to pull that out into a common distribution that all three depend on. (I just had to fix the same bug in all three cause it was in some shared code, then I had to fix the bug I introduced in all three.)

Plus, the documentation and testing needs a lot of work to bring it up to some set of usefulness.

In other words, I'd love some help. And, even though the distributions were originally designed to be used with HTML::Template, they're not CGI-specific distributions.

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