Creating Documents and Printing
Although PostScript and PDF are fundamentally vector drawing formats, they are more accurately described as document encoding formats. PostScript is the standard page description language used by most laser printers and printing devices. It is also the foundation on which the PDF document encoding format is built. Part III describes how both can be utilized from Perl programs.
In Chapter 10, we are introduced to the PostScript language and the Portable Document Format (PDF).
In Chapter 11, we develop a framework for easily generating PostScript text blocks, graphics, and documents from Perl.
In Chapter 12, we explore the PDF::API2 module, an object-oriented interface for building PDF documents from Perl.
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