Re: Printing from Perl in Windows

[toma]

You can write Postscript directly, but these days PDF is more popular. There are some nice modules to work with PDF. For example, PDF::Report looks like it might do what you want. ActiveState has a few PDF modules including PDF::Labels.

It should work perfectly the first time! - toma

[schweini]

okay - i guess that makes my first post obsolete.
these modules (seem to) rock!
is there any easy way to print the generated .pdfs without having to open them in a browser or Acrobat Reader?
beacause if there is, i have some serious re-coding to to do!

[toma]

I use ghostscript for batch processing of PDF and Postscript documents. It is easy to make printouts, create bitmaps, perform conversions, etc.

Ghostscript is a very active project at SourceForge

I found but have not tried a Ghostscript perl module on the news and community site for Ghostscript.

These tools are multiplatform. I have had great success with them!

It should work perfectly the first time! - toma