Hello Monks,

I am asked to generate nice looking PDF files from test-reports which are given in XML style.

On CPAN there are some PDF libraries available i.e. PDF::Create.

I found also the DocBook stuff on internet, for DocBook I have to get the XML TestReport into a kind of "DocBook-Style". But the DocBook toolchain is a bit complex I feel, and users got to have the toolchain installed (normally they only have perl installed).

For a big TestResult the text formatting in the CPAN PDF lib seems not to be that easy and I do not know the limitations, so it would be fine if I could change the layout of DIN A4 from portrait to landscape.

Does anyone have some experience with PDF creation and can recommend me some libs or tools which go together well with perl? Any recommendations are highly welcome!

Best regards
Tobias

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