Pretty Printing (maybe with PDFs ?)
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Date: 12/27/04
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Date: 27 Dec 2004 04:10:39 -0800
Hello, perhaps someone can help me. I'm in the process of updating some
in-house software written in Perl. The printing feature currently
prints out reports in tried-and-true monospaced ASCII text. I would
like to update this a tad, using some different fonts/styles and some
boxes/lines, maybe even add a little color such as our department's
.eps logo and a bitmapped graph or two. My first thought was to look
for a graphics generation library (like GD)... but at 600 dpi, that
would make for some huge page-sized bitmapped images! Then I thought
about hand rolling some Postscript. Now I'm thinking maybe PDF via some
sort of support module. Has anyone else trekked this route before? I'm
a PS and PDF newbie from the coding side of things! What do you
suggest? I'm leaning towards something that uses Postscript and/or PDF,
that way I can dump the generated file right to the printer and keep my
code as OS agnostic as possible.
Thanks in advance for any pointers!
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