Re: Re: PDF::Create Questions

[peppiv]

in reply to Re: PDF::Create Questions
in thread PDF::Create Questions

Thank for the help. The rectangle works like a charm. It's a shame you couldn't shade with the fill command. That would rock.

In the FileHandle example (your code explains more than the docs) how do I declare $self? Would this line come after the Create line? Sorry for all the questions.

peppiv

[tall_man]

You don't have to declare $self. I just clipped out a line from the PDF::Create "new" function to show you that it opens the file with a '>' in front of the name, which means that it will overwrite the old file automatically. There's no extra code you have to put in.

[peppiv]

I can't seem to get it right. I understand using the '>' to open a file to overwrite, but no matter how I try to make the syntax work, I fail.

How do I get from here



my $fh = new FileHandle "> $self->{'filename'}";

to here?



my $pdf = new PDF::Create ('filename' => '/html/mypdf.pdf',
                  'PageMode' => 'UseNone',
                  );

Even trying this

my $pdf = new PDF::Create "> ('filename' => '/html/mypdf.pdf',
                  'PageMode' => 'UseNone',
                  )";

and giving the pdf file 777 permissions doesn't work. Please help!

peppiv

[tall_man]

You are not being specific about what you mean by "I fail" and "it doesn't work." What's the error message?

Using the sample.pl file that came with the PDF::Create module, I was able to overwrite an existing pdf file with no problem at all. I can't imagine what is going wrong unless there is something strange about "/html"... Try creating and overwriting in a local directory instead.