in reply to PDF::API2 processing time
I had the same problem a while ago.
PDF::API2 is a very good module for everything PDF, but it is slow.
I had to create thousands of PDFs in one case and one PDF with thousands of pages in the other. Not feasible with PDF::API2.
I went for Inline::C and HARU. It is fast but debugging is a PITA.
Next version will be C++.
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