Fwd: First time using Perl & PDF::API2

2008/5/28 Daniel Kasak <[email protected]>:
> On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 07:10 -0700, ChrisC wrote:
>
>> Hi!,
>>
>> Not sure if using PDF::API2 is  a good choice or not.  Little to no
>> doc.
>
> Yeah it's very powerful, and *very* poorly documented. What's worse, one
> of the best tutorials ( http://rick.measham.id.au/pdf-api2/ ) has a big
> photo of John f'n Howard in it. There's no need to immortalise that war
> criminal.
>
>> In the "sub paging " I create the next page, but the
>> script does not print in the next page.  Do I have to tell it to print
>> on page 2?  If so how?
>
> For each page, you have to set up page dimensions, create new text and
> graphics objects, eg:
>
> # Set page dimensions
> $page->mediabox( $self->{page_width}, $self->{page_height} );
>
> # Create a new txt object for the page
> $self->{txt} = $page->text;
>
> # Set y to the top of the page
> $self->{y} = $self->{page_height} - $self->{upper_margin};
>
> # Create a new gfx object for our lines
> $self->{line} = $page->gfx;
>
>> How do I add an image, jpg etc.
>
> $gfx->image(
>    $image,                     # The image
>    $img_x_pos,                 # X
>    $img_y_pos,                 # Y
>    $imgdata->{scale_ratio}     # scale
> );
>
> You might want to look at my project, PDF::ReportWriter. It uses
> PDF::API2 to produce reports. It simplifies things considerably, does
> page breaking for you, grouping, etc. You can also use it just to render
> text ( keep calling $report->render_data with new text ). I use it for
> everything from Access-like reports to producing mail-merge letters ( it
> does alignment, justification, etc as well ).
>
> I would point you to my webpage, but I accidentally lost everything
> during a server upgrade, so you'll have to get it from CPAN. You can
> either use it directly, or view the source to see how to use PDF::API2.
>
> Let me know if you have any other questions, feature requests, etc.
>
> Dan
>
> --
> Daniel Kasak
> IT Developer
> NUS Consulting Group
> Level 5, 77 Pacific Highway
> North Sydney, NSW, Australia 2060

I have to agree. I really like PDF::API2 but the documentation is a
little poor. I think the guy how created it (Alfred Reibenschuh) moved
on before he had time to write the documentation up. It would be
really cool if someone could come up with a new tutorial. I also
wonder if there is some more features that could be added to the API
now. No one has done any work on it since 2005.
Just a though,
Dp.