PDF or equivalent

Duke_Of_Perl has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am creating personalized score sheets on my website and would like to give the user the ability to download them. I would like to put the score sheets into a PDF or something equivalent. Do you have any suggestions on how I can get my score sheets into a PDF. I have read about PDF::API2 - is this the way to go or is there something better. Thanks.

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Re: PDF or equivalent by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 27, 2007 at 18:03 UTC
Hi Duke_Of_Perl, You could start by having a look at PDF::Reuse, create a PDF 'template' and customize its contents based on users scores/stats. Hope this helps Martin	[reply]
Re: PDF or equivalent by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Dec 27, 2007 at 19:33 UTC
A fourth option is PDF::Template My criteria for good software: Does it work? Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?	[reply]
Re: PDF or equivalent by traveler (Parson) on Dec 27, 2007 at 19:31 UTC
If you have already coreated the scoresheets in HTML, try PDF::FromHTML. It will render the HTML as a PDF (and related tools can do more). There is also a command-line wrapper for it that comes with it.	[reply]
Re: PDF or equivalent by starX (Chaplain) on Dec 27, 2007 at 19:35 UTC
I've used PDF::API2::Simple for quick and dirty PDF output. Seems to work pretty well so far.	[reply]
Re: PDF or equivalent by jrsimmon (Hermit) on Dec 27, 2007 at 18:39 UTC
Duke of Perl, I use ghostscript to convert postscript files to pdf. I've been using this tool for about a year now, converting between 2 and 10 reports daily. It works quite well.	[reply]