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Hello Wise Monks...

I have the following code running as CGI. It starts to run and returns an empty PDF file to the browser and writes an error message to the error_log.

Do you have any wisdom on how to solve this?

linux: Linux version 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE (...) (gcc version 4.5.
+1 20100924 (Red Hat 4.5.1-4) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Fri Oct 22 15:27:53 UTC 2
+010

wkhtmltopdf: wkhtmltopdf 0.10.0 rc2

perl: This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 2 (v5.12.2) built for i38
+6-linux-thread-multi
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Thank You in Advance. ~Donavon

perl CODE:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#### takes string containing HTML and outputs PDF to browser to downlo
+ad
#### (otherwise would output to STDOUT)

print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='testPDF.pdf'\n";
print "Content-type: application/octet-stream\n\n";

my $htmlToPrint = "<html>a bunch of html</html>";

### open a filehandle and pipe it to wkhtmltopdf
### *the arguments "- -" tell wkhtmltopdf to get
###  input from STDIN and send output to STDOUT*
open(my $makePDF, "|-", "/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf", "-", "-") || die
+("$!");
print $makePDF $htmlToPrint;  ## sends my HTML to wkhtmltopdf which st
+reams immediately to STDOUT
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error_log message:

Loading pages (1/6)
QPainter::begin(): Returned false============================] 100%
Error: Unable to write to destination
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In reply to perl wkhtmltopdf Error: Unable to write to destination by djlerman

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