PDF::Template page_width/page_height

[mhearse]

I've another PDF::Template question. I see in PageDef.pm that if both the page_width and page_height pagedef attributes are set, a user defined page size can be created. Unfortunately, I can't get it to work. Does anyone see anything with this template? I'm using PDFlib Lite 7.02 and the latest version of PDF::Template.

<pdftemplate h="8">
  <pagedef page_width="5000" page_height="700" margins="1i">
    <font face="Courier" size="12">
      <header header_height="1i" />
        <row h="10">
          <textbox w="136.8" text="Date/Time" />
          <textbox w="79.2" text="Search Time" />
          <textbox w="28.8" text="Qual" />
          <textbox w="79.2" text="User" />
          <textbox w="79.2" text="Origin/Dest" />
          <textbox w="64.8" text="Commodity" />
          <textbox w="50.4" text="Service" />
          <textbox w="64.8" text="Acct Code" />
          <textbox w="50.4" text="Results" />
          <textbox w="50.4" text="Carrier" />
        <line />
        </row>
      <footer footer_height="1i">
        <row>
          <textbox w="100%" justify="right">Page <var value="__PAGE__"
+/></textbox>
        </row>
      </footer>
    </font>
  </pagedef>
</pdftemplate>

[dragonchild]

*sighs* Nothing's wrong with your template. I haven't used PDF::Template in about 4 years. In that time, it's accumulated rather significant bitrot. Specifically, there are methods that have been removed in PDFlib7 that portions of PDF::Template depend on. Plus, there's bugs that I haven't had the tuits to write failing tests for. And, to top it all off, I've been looking for another maintainer for P::T for about a year now. I just don't have the time to maintain it (which I don't use) and the other stuff (which I sometimes use). I'm still looking for someone to take the reins, if you're interested.

[mhearse]

Hmm... Before I commit to that I'll need to take a hard look at the code. I do intend to fix this bug though.

[mhearse]

IMHO it looks like the custom page_width, page_height elements weren't getting passed to the render method in the PageDef module. My solution was to create a method in Template.pm which returned the custome width/height. Probably not the best solution, but it works for me.