http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/ Mailing-List for Users of PDF::API2 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:20:53 GMT Jay Hannah http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3697 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3697 FYI, I pushed PDF::TextBlock 0.04 to CPAN last week. Cheers, j http://search.cpan.org/~jhannah/PDF-TextBlock-0.04/lib/PDF/TextBlock.pm 0.04 2009-10-21 12:04 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:55:54 GMT Martin Hosken http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3696 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3696 Dear rawbear, ... Text::PDF comes with a tool pdfbklt that will do what you want. Yours, Martin Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:18:26 GMT Shawn H Corey http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3695 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3695 ... Yes but if you're only doing a few, the Scribus may be a better choice. http://www.scribus.net/ -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:07:46 GMT rawbear http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3694 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3694 I have a requirement to produce a booklet. In a simplified example, a booklet prints 2 "pages" per sheet side. Each piece of paper, printed each side would Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:45:52 GMT turnertim http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3693 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3693 I got the wide character error to go away. And I got the text->paragraph working. For the more recent versions of PDF-API2 you have to have that 3rd Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:04:02 GMT Tim Turner http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3692 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3692 Yes most of the PDF generates fine but at the end I add some paragraphs of disclaimers and they don't show up. _____ From: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:52:57 GMT Shawn H Corey http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3691 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3691 ... It's possible. The newer PDF standard does not contain them. Have you looked at the PDF with a text editor, just to make sure there is some content in Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:37:12 GMT turnertim http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3690 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3690 Hello, I have some code that has worked for a long time... on new server we installed exact same version of PDF::API2 as on old server. That version is 0.49 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:10:23 GMT johngslng http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3689 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3689 Tim, Your ISP has somehow failed to install the Compress module. They might install it for you if you ask. If not, make a subdirectory called Compress and Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:09:44 GMT johngslng http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3688 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3688 Tim, If it really is a question of the script not being able to find the compress library, why not try uploading it manually to a lib directory beneath your Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:51:25 GMT Shawn H Corey http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3687 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3687 ... Did you comment out the `use` lines as well? The only thing I can think of is that the libraries are not being found. On my machine, it is here: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:49:44 GMT Tim Turner http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3686 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3686 The code has been in place for years and has worked with no problem... Then we had to move it to a new server and the admin installed API2 version 0.73... And Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:40:34 GMT jeffchimene http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3685 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3685 ... ISTR this error was also caused by corrupting the object instance. You might want to put a break at that line and examine the object. I'm guessing that Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:22:00 GMT Tim Turner http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3684 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3684 Yes we used CPAN to install both PDF::API2 and Compress::Zlib ... From: perl-text-pdf-modules@yahoogroups.com [mailto:perl-text-pdf-modules@yahoogroups.com] On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:46:20 GMT Shawn H Corey http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3683 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-text-pdf-modules/message/3683 ... Almost all PDF are compressed. You may not be able to load PDFs without the library. If you are just creating new ones, you should be fine. But they can