Hi Monks!
I need to create a PDF document with a few tables in it, from the code sample of the module PDF::Table its simple to have one table in the same page of a PDF, but I can’t figure it out how I would add another table into the same PDF page. Has any of you tried or had to do the same thing using the same module?
Code Sample
 use PDF::API2;
 use PDF::Table;
 
 my $pdftable = new PDF::Table;
 my $pdf = new PDF::API2(-file => "table_of_lorem.pdf");
 my $page = $pdf->page;
 
 # some data to layout
 my $some_data =[
    ["1 Lorem ipsum dolor",
    "Donec odio neque, faucibus vel",
    "consequat quis, tincidunt vel, felis."],
    ["Nulla euismod sem eget neque.",
    "Donec odio neque",
    "Sed eu velit."],
    #... and so on
 ];
 
 $left_edge_of_table = 50;
 # build the table layout
 $pdftable->table(
     # required params
     $pdf,
     $page,
     $some_data,
     x => $left_edge_of_table,
     w => 495,
     start_y => 750,
     next_y  => 700,
     start_h => 300,
     next_h  => 500,
     # some optional params
     padding => 5,
     padding_right => 10,
     background_color_odd  => "gray",
     background_color_even => "lightblue", #cell background color for 
+even rows
  );
# second table in the same PDF page
 $pdftable->table(
     # required params
     $pdf,
     $page,
     $some_data,
     x => $left_edge_of_table,
     w => 500,
     start_y => 755,
     next_y  => 705,
     start_h => 305,
     next_h  => 505,
     # some optional params
     padding => 5,
     padding_right => 10,
     background_color_odd  => "navy",
     background_color_even => "red", #cell background color for even r
+ows
  );
  
 # do other stuff with $pdf
 $pdf->saveas();

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Thanks for looking!

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