NAME

Mojo::PDF - Generate PDFs with the goodness of Mojo!

SYNOPSIS

# Just render text. Be sure to call ->end to save your document
Mojo::PDF->new('mypdf.pdf')->text('Viva la Mojo!', 306, 396)->end;

# Let's get fancy pants:
Mojo::PDF->new('myawesome.pdf')

    ->mixin('_template.pdf')   # add a pre-made PDF page from a template

    # Render text with standard fonts
    ->font('Times-Bold')->size(24)->color(0, 0, .7)
        ->text('Mojo loves PDFs', 612/2, 500, 'center')

    # Render text with custom TTF fonts
    ->add_fonts(
        galaxie    => 'fonts/GalaxiePolaris-Book.ttf',
        galaxie_it => 'fonts/GalaxiePolaris-BookItalic.ttf',
    )
    ->font('galaxie')->size(24)->color('#353C8C')
        ->text( 'Weeee', 20.4, 75 )
        ->text( 'eeee continuing same line!')
        ->text( 'Started a new line!', 20.4 )

    # Render a table
    ->font('galaxie_it')->size(8)->color
    ->table(
        at        => [20.4, 268],
        data      => [
            [ qw{Product  Description Qty  Price  U/M} ],
            @data,
        ],
    )

    ->end;

DESCRIPTION

Mojotastic, no-nonsense PDF generation.

WARNING

METHODS

Unless otherwise indicated, all methods return their invocant.

new

my $pdf = Mojo::PDF->new('myawesome.pdf');

Creates a new Mojo::PDF object. Takes one mandatory argument: the filename of the PDF you want to generate.

end

$p->end;

Finish rendering your PDF and save it.

add_fonts

$pdf->add_fonts(
    galaxie    => 'fonts/GalaxiePolaris-Book.ttf',
    galaxie_it => 'fonts/GalaxiePolaris-BookItalic.ttf',
);

Adds TTF fonts to the document. Key/value pairs specify the arbitrary name of the font (for you to use with "font") and the path to the TTF file.

You cannot use any of the names of the "DEFAULT FONTS" for your custom fonts.

color

$pdf->color(.5, .5, .3);
$pdf->color('#abcdef');
$pdf->color('#abc');   # same as #aabbcc
$pdf->color;           # same as #000

Specifies active color. Takes either an RGB tuple or a hex colour. Defaults to black.

font

$pdf->font('Times-Bold');

$pdf->font('galaxie');

Sets active font family. Takes the name of either one of the "DEFAULT FONTS" or one of the custom fonts included with "add_fonts"

mixin

$pdf->mixin('template.pdf');

$pdf->mixin('template.pdf', 3);

Adds a page from an existing PDF to your currently active page, so you can use it as a template and render additional things on it. Takes one mandatory argument, the filename of the PDF to include. An optional second argument specifies the page number to include (starting from 1), which defaults to the first page.

page

$pdf->page;

Add a new blank page to your document and sets it as the currently active page.

size

$pdf->size(24);

$pdf->size; # set to 12

Specifies active font size in points. Defaults to 12 points.

table

$pdf->table(
    at        => [20.4, 268],
    data      => [
        [ qw{Product  Description Qty  Price  U/M} ],
        @$data,
    ],

    #Optional:
    border         => [.5, '#CFE3EF'],
    header         => 'galaxie_bold',
    max_height     => 744,
    min_width      => 571.2,
    row_height     => 24,
    str_width_mult => 1.1,
);

Render a table on the current page. Takes these arguments:

at

at => [20.4, 268],

An arrayref with X and Y point values of the table's top, left corner.

data

data => [
    [ qw{Product  Description Qty  Price  U/M} ],
    @$data,
],

An arrayref of rows, each of which is an arrayref of strings representing table cell values. Setting "header" will render first row as a table header. Cells that are undef/empty string will not be rendered.

border

border => [.5, '#CFE3EF'],

Optional. Takes an arrayref with the width (in points) and colour of the table's borders. Color allows the same values as "color" method. Defaults to: [.5, '#ccc']

header

header => 'galaxie_bold',

Optional. Takes the same value as "font". If set, the first row of /data will be used as table header, rendered centered using header font. Not set by default.

max_height

{
    $data = $pdf->table(
        max_height => 744,
        data       => $data,
        at         => [20.4, 50],
    );

    @$data and $pdf->page and redo;
}

Optional. ALTERS RETURN VALUE OF table METHOD. Specifies the maximum height of the table. Specifying this option makes table method return an arrayref of rows that did not fit into the table. You can use that to add a new page and continue rendering the overflown data.

min_width

min_width => 571.2,

Optional. Table's minimum width in points (zero by default). The largest column will be widened to make the table at least this wide.

row_height

row_height => 24,

Optional. Specifies the height of a row, in points. Defaults to 1.4 times the current font size.

str_width_mult

str_width_mult => 1.1,

Optional. Cell widths will be automatically computed based on the width of the strings they contain. On some fonts, the detection is a bit imperfect. For those cases, use str_width_mult as a multiplier for the detected character width.

text

$p->text($text_string, $x, $y, $alignment, $rotation);

$p->text('Mojo loves PDFs', 612/2, 500, 'center', 90);
$p->text('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, ', 20 );
$p->text('consectetur adipiscing elit!');

Render text with the currently active "font", "size", and "color". $alignment specifies how to align the string horizontally on the $x point; valid values are left (default), center, and right. $rotation is the rotation of the text in degrees.

Subsequent calls to text can omit $x and $y values with these effects: omit both to continue rendering where previous text finished; omit just $y, to render on the next line from previous call to text.

DEFAULT FONTS

These fonts are available by default:

Times-Roman
Times-Bold
Times-Italic
Times-BoldItalic

Courier
Courier-Bold
Courier-Oblique
Courier-BoldOblique

Helvetica
Helvetica-Bold
Helvetica-Oblique
Helvetica-BoldOblique

Symbol
ZapfDingbats

You can use their abbreviated names:

TR
TB
TI
TBI

C
CB
CO
CBO

H
HB
HO
HBO

S
Z

SEE ALSO

PDF::Reuse, PDF::Create, and PDF::WebKit

REPOSITORY

BUGS

AUTHOR

ZOFFIX

LICENSE

You can use and distribute this module under the same terms as Perl itself. See the LICENSE file included in this distribution for complete details.