Conclusion

• Perl and CPAN provide many facilities for creating professional business documents

  • Text::AutoFormat, Text::Flowchart, Text::*
  • PDF::API2, Pod::Pdf, Pod::LaTeX
  • GD::Graph, Image::Magick, MIME::Lite::HTML

• Microsoft standards need not be a barrier to Perl programmers on UNIX

  • Spreadsheet::WriteExcel