Chapter 12. Creating PDF Documents with Perl
The PDF::API2 module can be used to dynamically create new PDF documents or manipulate existing PDF documents. The sample application in this chapter creates a tabular PDF report (address labels) from a collection of data. Later, we’ll see how to add a “Confidential” stamp to each page of a document and how to add outlines or bookmarks to a PDF.
Like most of the other modules in this book, PDF::API2 is available on CPAN. Unlike most of the other modules, it does not work with the 5.005 series of Perl distributions; it requires Perl 5.6.x. It also requires the Compress::Zlib, Font::TTF, and Text::PDF modules to be preinstalled.
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