Re: [MacPerl] pod2pdf - someone interested?

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 12:53 PM +0100 11/21/99, Axel Rose wrote:
>Hello folks,
>
>I'm seriously considering to write a helper to convert POD documentation
>into Adobe's PDF format, which (mind!) doesn't make use of the commercial
>distiller.
>
>Instead it uses Thomas Merz (www.pdflib.com) library which is available
>and usable with MacPerl too. (it's available in C++, Java, Perl, Python on
>different platforms too, under Aladdin Free Public license). That way you
>can write PDF directly, no need to write intermediate PS files.
>
>I'm not sure whether there is a real need for such a conversion.
>
>I personally don't like printing HTML pages (pod2html) and simple
>text files (copy&past to your editor) miss a lot of functionality.
>
>So please let me know if you are interested.

See what Russ Allbery has done with his podlators, available at CPAN. 
It'll be best if you use Pod::Parser to deal with reading the pod, 
like he does, since it is becoming a standard.  (See the archives of 
the perl5-porters mailing list for the discussion.)

>
>
>Axel
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>Axel Rose, Springer & Jacoby Digital GmbH & Co. KG, mailto:rose@sj.com
>   pub PGP key 1024/A21CB825 E0E4 BC69 E001 96E9  2EFD 86CA 9CA1 AAC5
>   "... denn alles, was entsteht, ist wert, daß es zugrunde geht ..."

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Paul Schinder
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