Many perl pdf libs take a long time to create pdf's.  This is clean and used existing port textproc/p5-PDF-API2
        I am the port maintainer for p5-Mail-SpamAssassin and will also volenteer to maintain this port

Fix: suggest textproc/p5-PDF-Table
Shar, as per ports manual:



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#	textproc/p5-PDF-Table/
#	textproc/p5-PDF-Table/Makefile
#	textproc/p5-PDF-Table/distinfo
#	textproc/p5-PDF-Table/pkg-descr
#	textproc/p5-PDF-Table/pkg-plist
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echo c - textproc/p5-PDF-Table/
mkdir -p textproc/p5-PDF-Table/ > /dev/null 2>&1
echo x - textproc/p5-PDF-Table/Makefile
sed 's/^X//' >textproc/p5-PDF-Table/Makefile << 'END-of-textproc/p5-PDF-Table/Makefile'
X# New Ports collection makefile for:	p5-PDF-Table
X# Date created:				May 22, 2009
X# Whom:					scheidell@secnap.net
X#
X# $FreeBSD: ports/textproc/p5-PDF-Table/Makefile $
X#
X
XPORTNAME=	PDF-Table
XPORTVERSION=	0.9.3
XCATEGORIES=	textproc perl5
XMASTER_SITES=	CPAN
XPKGNAMEPREFIX=	p5-
X
XMAINTAINER=	scheidell@secnap.net
XCOMMENT=	A utility class for building table layouts in a PDF::API2 object
X
XBUILD_DEPENDS=	${PERL_SITELIBDIR}/PDF/API2/Content/Text.pm:${PORTSDIR}/textproc/p5-PDF-API2
XRUN_DEPENDS=	${BUILD_DEPENDS}
X
XPERL_CONFIGURE=	5.8.0+
XUSE_PERL5_RUN=  5.8.7+
XPERL_SITELIBDIR=	${SITE_PERL}
X
XMAN3=		PDF::Table.3
X
X.include <bsd.port.mk>
END-of-textproc/p5-PDF-Table/Makefile
echo x - textproc/p5-PDF-Table/distinfo
sed 's/^X//' >textproc/p5-PDF-Table/distinfo << 'END-of-textproc/p5-PDF-Table/distinfo'
XMD5 (PDF-Table-0.9.3.tar.gz) = f939e885dca74915cb9590d5eaa7add8
XSHA256 (PDF-Table-0.9.3.tar.gz) = f29d30ac22757cf1cd5f8fe3a420de296a80083776818cf402713ef8aaae7c16
XSIZE (PDF-Table-0.9.3.tar.gz) = 20443
END-of-textproc/p5-PDF-Table/distinfo
echo x - textproc/p5-PDF-Table/pkg-descr
sed 's/^X//' >textproc/p5-PDF-Table/pkg-descr << 'END-of-textproc/p5-PDF-Table/pkg-descr'
XPDF-Table version 0.9.3
X=====================
XThis module is intended for table generation using PDF::API2
X
XCHANGES
XSee the ChangeLog file or make a diff from the tools menu in CPAN
X
XCONTACTS 
XWWW:	http://search.cpan.org/~omega/
X
XDEPENDENCIES
XThis module requires these other modules and libraries:  PDF::API2
X
XCOPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
XCopyright (C) 2006 by Daemmon Hughes
X
XExtended by Desislav Kamenov since version 0.02
X
XThis library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
Xit under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or,
Xat your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
END-of-textproc/p5-PDF-Table/pkg-descr
echo x - textproc/p5-PDF-Table/pkg-plist
sed 's/^X//' >textproc/p5-PDF-Table/pkg-plist << 'END-of-textproc/p5-PDF-Table/pkg-plist'
X%%SITE_PERL%%/PDF/Table.pm
X%%SITE_PERL%%/mach/auto/PDF/Table/.packlist
X@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/PDF
X@dirrm %%SITE_PERL%%/mach/auto/PDF/Table
X@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/mach/auto/PDF
END-of-textproc/p5-PDF-Table/pkg-plist
exit
How-To-Repeat:         Try to do a reasonable job of creating a PDF with tables other ways. (and I need this for a project)