in reply to Review request for PDF::API2 Tutorial

Just been following the tutorial with v0.40 -- as a working example I was seeing how hard it would be to build a Cissiculum Vitae (Resumé) out of a DB straight to PDF.

I certainly think it's worth CPANing the text_block functionality. Other comments I'd make would be to fix the link up for the full source, and maybe even have a linky to the final result. Of course, you could go a step further and have the example code write the tutorial as a PDF file :)

If you do CPAN the text_block -- make it take a font handle and a font size -- then you can have a default line-height of (say) 1.2em.

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Re^2: Review request for PDF::API2 Tutorial
by BigLug (Chaplain) on Apr 22, 2005 at 01:40 UTC
    I haven't worked with PDF::API2 for 6 months now .. changed jobs and about to change again. The tutorial mentioned is still a work-in-progress and maybe I'll have some more time on my hands to go back to it.

    I'd like to get it working properly with 0.4x, but I think that 0.4x has some sort of advanced text block already... not too sure though. How well did the existing tutorial work for you in the newer release?


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      Worked fine so far; to be honest, I haven't had a great deal of time to do more with it -- I was considering do kind of bizarre reimplmentation of FOP in Perl, but that would be excessive :)

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