Okay, I've actually USED PDF::Create that others are suggesting and it's okay. In fact, this short program took some existing text and overlaid a grid on top of it to make nice column rules that the data lacked. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use PDF::Create;

my $font;
my $height=792;
my $width=612;
my $left=20;
my $topmargin=20;
my $pointsize=8;
my $spacing=$pointsize+3;

sub addtext {
    my($page, $fh)=@_;
    my $l=0;
    my $hpos=$height-$topmargin;

    while(<$fh>) {
        $page->stringl($font, $pointsize, $left, $hpos-=$spacing, $_);
        last if ++$l > 66;
    }
    
}
sub boxpage {
    my($page)=@_;

    $page->line($left, $topmargin,
            $left, $height-$topmargin,
            );
    $page->line( $left, $height-$topmargin,
             $width-$left, $height-$topmargin);
    $page->line( $width-$left, $height-$topmargin,
            $width-$left, $topmargin);
    $page->line( $width-$left, $topmargin,
             $left, $topmargin);

    $page->line($left+42, $topmargin,
            $left+42, $height-$topmargin);

    $page->line($left+81, $topmargin,
            $left+81, $height-$topmargin);

    $page->line($left+145, $topmargin,
            $left+145, $height-$topmargin);

    $page->line($left+183, $topmargin,
            $left+183, $height-$topmargin);
}

my $pdf=new PDF::Create('filename' => 'outfile.pdf',
            'Version'  => '1.2',
            'Author'   => 'Clinton Pierce',
            'Title'    => 'Test Report',);
my $root=$pdf->new_page('MediaBox' => [ 0, 0, 612, 792 ]);
$font=$pdf->font('Subtype' => 'Type1',
            'Encoding' => 'WinAnsiEncoding',
            'BaseFont' => 'Courier');


open(FH, $0) || die;

while(not eof(FH)) {
    my $page=$root->new_page();
    boxpage($page);
    addtext($page, \*FH);
}

$pdf->close;

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Now the caveat is, there's not a whole lot PDF::Create can do. No colors. No bitmaps. Not much more than lines, circles and other polygons. No width control on the lines either.

And PDF::Create hasn't been updated in a long, long time and I got a bounce from the e-mail address of the maintainer. But I got enough out of it for my needs...

In reply to Re: Generating PDF by clintp
in thread Generating PDF by Anonymous Monk

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