Webfluency » PDF::API2 http://www.webfluency.com We Speak Web So You Don't Have To Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:28:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Old Content, Still Valid http://www.webfluency.com/2008/02/01/old-content-still-valid/ http://www.webfluency.com/2008/02/01/old-content-still-valid/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:20:52 +0000 gdemetrick http://webfluency.com/greg/2008/02/01/old-content-still-valid/ PDF DocumentOne thing I try to do from time to time is clean up old content on my sites. Because of this, I find gems of knowledge I forgot I had and should share with the wider programming communities. This is just such a case.

A while back I was tasked with writing a program that took content out of a database and reformat it as a PDF document with a specific layout. I found this nice CPAN module for perl called PDF::API2 which allows you to write PDFs on the fly. After some database giggery pokery I had a program in place that created the 500 PDF files in about 2 min.

After I wrote the program I wanted to address the complete lack of documentation for the module. I ended up writing an article that never got linked anywhere. I am correcting that issue now and hopefully this will help someone else with a similar problem.

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