Re: Errors while generating PDF report

You should install Compress::Zlib:

shell# cpan
cpan> install Compress::Zlib
[...]
cpan> quit
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and then it might still be necessary to manually load it with use Compress::Zlib;.

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Re^2: Errors while generating PDF report by mscharrer (Hermit) on Apr 21, 2008 at 17:16 UTC
I didn't used any of the PDF:: modules yet, only have some experience with the Apache FOP generator, but I would bet that they are not able to compete with LaTeX PDF output, as long they aren't using it as back-end. FOP can't, at least what I saw so far, maybe with better settings it gets better. I'm talking about document layout quality. Most tools only translate tags from one format to the other (e.g. HTML to PDF) which results e.g. in poor page breaks and ugly spacing. For longer documents I would generate LaTeX code from Perl and compile it with pdflatex. The drawback is that you have to know LaTeX for this. But this could be wrapped into a modules, maybe there is already one on CPAN.	[reply]

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Re^2: Errors while generating PDF report
by mscharrer (Hermit) on Apr 21, 2008 at 17:16 UTC

I'm talking about document layout quality. Most tools only translate tags from one format to the other (e.g. HTML to PDF) which results e.g. in poor page breaks and ugly spacing.

For longer documents I would generate LaTeX code from Perl and compile it with pdflatex. The drawback is that you have to know LaTeX for this. But this could be wrapped into a modules, maybe there is already one on CPAN.

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