akwe-xavante,

I just did this last week, and I have to say it was quite complicated. I haven't had to move the "cursor" on paper since plotter days. Not to discourage you, but you are taking on a difficult task.

Since you're on Linux and your creating the html already, why not use a system utility to convert the html to pdf. I 'googled' and 'duckduckgo.com' and found several linux utilities that convert html to pdf. If you test it from the command line, then you could call the 'system' function or 'qx//' then use the output(file) to attach in the email.

I did use PDF::API2 and it worked great. I created a template by using an array: 

my @document = (
                " ",
                " ",
                "Email Address: $Email",
                "Company Name:  $Company",
                ...

                );

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Each element in the array represents a line in the pdf document. That way the subroutine could process each line in a while loop. All the variables were initialized before the call to the PDF_Create subroutine, which is what I think you want to do.

Good Luck

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

In reply to Re: PDF::API2 Questions by flexvault
in thread PDF::API2 Questions by akwe-xavante

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