Re: Creating PDF files with Perl (CPAN-Review)

in reply to Creating PDF files with Perl

Did you see Bart's negative review on CPAN?

It includes alternative sample code achieved by RTFMing.

Cheers Rolf

PS: Bart++

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Re^2: Creating PDF files with Perl (CPAN-Review) by pklausner (Scribe) on May 11, 2011 at 15:01 UTC
In my experience, htmldoc frequently dies ungracefully on HTML syntax it cannot digest, even when it is perfectly valid. So the RTFM method needs extra error handling. I do not know HTML::HTMLdoc, but the other comments indicate to me, that the module gives no good feedback on any problem. Now to the actual question: a field that I can edit from the PDF, like an input type="text" in a form, is that possible? No. htmldoc does only^) simple HTML 3 and simple PDF, cf www.htmldoc.org ) I still find it useful when you have HTML in the first place and can clean up a bit before passing it on to htmldoc	[reply]

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Re^2: Creating PDF files with Perl (CPAN-Review)
by pklausner (Scribe) on May 11, 2011 at 15:01 UTC

Now to the actual question: a field that I can edit from the PDF, like an input type="text" in a form, is that possible? No. htmldoc does only^*) simple HTML 3 and simple PDF, cf www.htmldoc.org

I still find it useful when you have HTML in the first place and can clean up a bit before passing it on to htmldoc

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