Greetings!

I am new to perl, and hope to glean wisdom from others with more experience than myself.

I have a program on a Win32 platform (the source of which is not available) that generates a report at regular intervals, and sends that report directly to a printer. In addition to the report being printed I would like to save the report in a file (preferrably pdf) at the same time. I don't think it would be very difficult to set the program up to print to pdf, but to have the pdf then printed automatically would need some sort of scheduled script. I thought perl might do this nicely, but I am not sure how to proceed.

If anyone can show me how to get started, or can see a more simplistic solution to my goal of having the report in file and hardcopy simutaneously I welcome the feedback.

Much thanks!

2006-01-10 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Printing Delima'

In reply to Printing Dilemma by Anonymous Monk

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