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Mar. 6th, 2003 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nollyOK, after further poking at the problem, here's what I need:
-- data is coming from a DB, is of variable length, and will contain images of varying size
-- output should a single file (not a tarball/zip of html + images)
-- the resulting file should be easily printable from the typical in-school computer
-- either the generating program needs to insert page breaks in reasonable places or the result needs to be editable with common software. So I need to either group bits of content such that there won't be a pagebreak in the middle unless the clump is more than a page, or I need to be able to tell how full the page is
-- preferably a module that will work with Perl 5.005_03
Here's what I've looked at so far:
PDF: pagination is difficult, if not impossible, and PDF::API2 requires 5.6, though some of the other PDF modules may work, if the pagination thing can be resolved.
Word: can't find a module to write Word. Word will handle HTML, but images remain separate files when done that way.
RTF: doesn't handle image
HTML: images are separate files.
Other formats? Modules to investigate?
-- data is coming from a DB, is of variable length, and will contain images of varying size
-- output should a single file (not a tarball/zip of html + images)
-- the resulting file should be easily printable from the typical in-school computer
-- either the generating program needs to insert page breaks in reasonable places or the result needs to be editable with common software. So I need to either group bits of content such that there won't be a pagebreak in the middle unless the clump is more than a page, or I need to be able to tell how full the page is
-- preferably a module that will work with Perl 5.005_03
Here's what I've looked at so far:
PDF: pagination is difficult, if not impossible, and PDF::API2 requires 5.6, though some of the other PDF modules may work, if the pagination thing can be resolved.
Word: can't find a module to write Word. Word will handle HTML, but images remain separate files when done that way.
RTF: doesn't handle image
HTML: images are separate files.
Other formats? Modules to investigate?
