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The basis for the Gnome Printing Architecture as described in:

The library "libotf" provides the following facilites: o Read Open Type Layout Tables from OTF file. Currently these tables are supported; head, name, cmap, GDEF, GSUB, and GPOS. o Convert a Unicode character sequence to a glyph code sequence by using the above tables. The combination of libotf and the FreeType library (Ver. 2) realizes CTL (complex text layout) by OpenType fonts.

[ excerpt from developer's web site ] Texinfo is the official documentation format of the GNU project. It was invented by Richard Stallman and Bob Chassell many years ago, loosely based on Brian Reid's Scribe and other formatting languages of the time. It is used by many non-GNU projects as well. Texinfo uses a single source file to produce output in a number of formats, both online and printed (dvi, html, info, pdf, xml, etc.). This means that instead of writing different documents for online information and another for a printed manual, you need write only one document. And when the work is revised, you need revise only that one document. The Texinfo system is well-integrated with GNU Emacs.

The PECL-haru extension provides bindings to the libHaru library. libHaru is a free, cross platform, and Open Source library for generating PDF files.

This extension wraps the PDFlib programming library for processing PDF on the fly, created by Thomas Merz.

Lout is a document formatting system similar in style to LaTeX. It offers a very full range of features, including PostScript, PDF, and plain text output, optimal paragraph and page breaking, automatic hyphenation, PostScript EPS file inclusion and generation, equation formatting, tables, diagrams, rotation and scaling, sorted indexes, bibliographic databases, running headers and odd-even pages, automatic cross referencing, multilingual documents including hyphenation (most European languages are supported, including Russian), formatting of computer programs, and more. Lout may be extended by writing definitions which are much simpler than the equivalent troff of TeX macros.

Print driver for the Minolta PagePro 1(2/3/4)xxW printers.

This module allows Perl programs to conveniently read information from font files. All the font access is done through the FreeType2 library, which supports many formats. It can render images of characters with high-quality hinting and antialiasing, extract metrics information, and extract the outlines of characters in scalable formats like TrueType.

Previous versions of this module attempted to provide a Perl interface layer similar to the C interface of CUPS. This was fine for power users, but most people were not looking for this type of interface. This module has now been converted to use an object oriented paradigm to facilitate quicker development and ease of use.

PDF::Template is a layout system that creates Adobe PDF files from the same data structure used by HTML::Template. Currently, the only renderer support is pdflib_pl, which is from PDFLib (www.pdflib.com). There is a free version (PDFLib Lite), but that does not handle Unicode. If you need CJK fonts, you will need to purchase the full version of PDFLib from them.