Dear Monks. I am new to perl and have been using the excellent PDF::API2 module.

I wish to create a series of paragraphs on a document so that the text flows from one to the other.

I can successfully create a paragraph using the following code

My paragraph is 

my $paragraph="erci ent ulluptat vel eum zzriure feuguero core conseni
+s adignim irilluptat praessit la con henit velis dio ex enim ex ex eu
+guercilit il enismol eseniam, suscing essequis nit iliquip erci blam 
+dolutpatisi.
Orpero do odipit ercilis ad er augait ing ex elit autatio od minisis a
+mconsequam";

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And my code snippet is 

my $txt=$page->text;
$txt->textstart; 
$txt->lead(7); 
$txt->font( $font{'Helvetica'}{'Bold'}, 7 / pt );
$txt->fillcolor('red');
$txt->translate(30,265); 
$txt->paragraph("$paragraph", 40 /mm, 70, align => "left" );

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What I need to do is to collect the text that does not fit into this paragraph (i.e. the overflow text) into a variable $overflow_text. Then I can use the contents of $overflow_text to place the remaining text into another paragraph object. There appears to be some reference to overflow text in the documentation but I cannot quite get my head around it

Thanks for your help

In reply to PDF::API2 Paragraphs and Overflow Text by dickieb

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