#!/usr/bin/env perl use warnings; use strict; use diagnostics; #Please use TABSTOP=4 for best view use PDF::API2; use PDF::Table; my $pdftable = new PDF::Table; my $pdf = new PDF::API2( -file => "headers.pdf" ); my $page = $pdf->page(); $pdf->mediabox('A4'); # A4 as defined by PDF::API2 is h=842 w=545 for portrait # some data to layout my $some_data = [ [ 'HeaderA', 'HeaderB' ], [ 'foo', 'bar' ], [ 'one', 'two' ], [ 'thr', 'four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth' ], [ 'fiv', 'six' ], [ 'sev', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' ], ]; # build the table layout $pdftable->table( # required params $pdf, $page, $some_data, x => 10, w => 220, start_y => 700, next_y => 700, start_h => 62, next_h => 62, # some optional params border => 0, font_size => 20, max_word_length => 13, header_props => { background_color => 'yellow', repeat => 1 }, cell_props => [ [], [ { background_color => 'red' }, { background_color => 'blue' } ], ], ); $pdf->saveas();