PDF creation?

[Jérôme Étévé]

If you want full support for unicode strings and a good control of layout,
I found that the simpliest solution is to use xelatex.

I didn't find PDF::API2 fits in a multilingual environment.

Also, http://www.pdflib.com/ is ok (very good layout capabities, but it's a
commercial product), although last time I was using it, unicode support was
quite poor.


J




On 22 April 2013 11:42, Kieren Diment <diment at gmail.com> wrote:

> Similarly one can use pandoc (markdown to pdf and many other formats
> including pod and TeX) in the same way. http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc
> I really like pandoc, although it is not bug free.
>
> On 22/04/2013, at 8:28 PM, Peter Corlett wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 07:43:11AM -0400, Mark Fowler wrote:
> >> In a few weeks I'm going to want to be creating PDFs from Perl,
> something I
> >> haven't done in a few years. What's the recommended approach these days?
> >
> > My *favourite* approach, which is almost certainly not the consensus
> answer, is
> > to generate a LaTeX document (e.g. using Template.pm) and then run that
> through
> > xelatex to generate a PDF. This does however require you to learn how to
> drive
> > LaTeX and how to trawl CTAN etc for useful packages.
> >
> > (FWIW, pretty much all of the useful LaTeX packages are already in
> Debian.)
> >
> >> I know I'm going to want to create the document from scratch, not fill
> in a
> >> template, and I'm probably going to want multi-line text and basic
> drawing (a
> >> horizontal line or two)
> >
> > The "template" in this case would be the LaTeX preamble that pulls in and
> > configures all of the packages you use in your document. You get
> multi-line
> > text, tables, page reflowing and all sorts of other goodies for free.
> >
>
>
>


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