cypress:

Have you run it from the command line exactly as you're trying to call it from perl?

Is it putting anything in the print queue? I had an app once that I worked on and nothing printed ... until someone put the proper paper size in. I had the wrong paper size for it, and they just kept piling up.

Oh .. and for the last question, just use a <p> to insert line breaks.

and use a <c> to start your code statements
 so
  it
   doesn't
    reformat
   it
  for
 you
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and then a </c> to end the code section.

...roboticus