flexvault:

I'm not familiar with PDF::Create, either. I briefly looked over the docs, and it looks like the println method might be enough. It doesn't mention tab expansion, so I don't know if the same problem would occur or not.

There's a reference to a set width method, too, so it may let you set line length and do auto wrapping. But I haven't actually tried using it.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

UPDATE: I went ahead and installed it and gave it a quick try:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# example for PDF::Create
#
use 5.14.0;
use warnings;
use autodie;
use PDF::Create;

my $txt=<<EOT;
Here's a little bit of text that contains a very long line followed by
+ a few short ones so we can see which method(s) may or may not handle
+ wrapping and embedded newlines, just in case any of them do.
Though\tprintnl\tshould\thandle
embedded newlines just fine.
EOT

my $pdf = new PDF::Create('filename'=>'foo.pdf');
my $a4 = $pdf->new_page('MediaBox'=>$pdf->get_page_size('A4'));
my $page = $a4->new_page;
my $f1 = $pdf->font('BaseFont'=>'Helvetica');
$page->string($f1, 12, 72, 600, $txt);
$page->printnl($txt, $f1, 12, 72, 400);
$pdf->close;

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The result: neither the string nor printnl methods will do autowrapping or any sort of tab expansion other than treating the tabs as spaces (unless my brief scan of the docs missed an option somewhere). The printnl function will at least handle \n nicely.

In reply to Re^3: PDF::Create - help with tabulation by roboticus
in thread PDF::Create - help with tabulation by julio_514

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