Re: HTML::HTMLDoc -- Including a base64 img

I ran a few tests:

Your HTML (<html>...</html>) by itself renders with an image.
Your code, as written, generates PDF without an image: I tried with both piping to xpdf and redirecting to a file and opening that file with two different PDF viewers.
I saved the image (from the base64 data) generated in the pure HTML test as a JPEG file and used that filename in the src attribute in your code: the generated PDF still had no image.
I also tried replacing the to_string() method with the to_file() method: again, PDF had no image.

There are 22 new/open bugs (raised at various times over the last decade): Active bugs for HTML-HTMLDoc.

The current version (0.10) was written 9 years ago. There was a developer release (0.11_01) 5 years ago. Here's a list of releases.

Maintainance of this module appears to have been abandoned. The author didn't even reply to this (from 5 years ago): Bug #47649 for HTML-HTMLDoc: Question about maintenance for HTML::HTMLDoc.

You can raise a bug report but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a fix.

In your situation, I'd probably be looking for an alternative solution that didn't involve this module.

-- Ken

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Re^2: HTML::HTMLDoc -- Including a base64 img by djlerman (Beadle) on Apr 10, 2014 at 18:51 UTC
Thank You!!! This is amazingly helpful and I'm sure it will come it handy to others as well. ~Donavon	[reply]