Re: [cgiapp] OT: PDF::API2 help!

[Eric Olson <suppressed>]

Awesome!! Thank you so much for your help. I have installed htmldoc and
HTML::HTMLDoc from cpan and I will be dinking around with all of this
later.

Thanks again,
Eric


On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 10:14, Jason Purdy wrote:
> Eric Olson wrote:
> 
> > I had looked at this, but was having problems getting HTML::HTMLDoc from
> > cpan. This is what I needed here. Are you familiar with how to pass the
> > pdf created by this into the browser?
> 
> Well, I'm not using HTML::HTMLDoc ... just doing it behind the scenes w/ 
> that system() call.  Once the file is done, if you wanted to pass this 
> into the browser, you could open() the file and read the bits into an 
> $output variable and return that in your runmode.  Or you could trigger 
> a download like so:
> 
> sub my_runmode {
>    # ...
>    $self->header_props(
>        -type	=> 'application/octet-stream',
>        -attachment	=> "$filebase.pdf",
>      );
>    # gather up $output
>    return $output;
> }
> 
> Don't forget to clean up after yourself by unlinking the pdf file.
> 
> > Also, how is this module for handling images in the pdf. I have two .png
> > graphe created by GD::Graph I need to place in the body of the pdf. Can
> > this module handle that? Sorry for asking without looking at the module,
> > deadline and all.....
> 
> Hmm, again, I would put the images and everything into that 
> HTML::Template, create a dummy HTML file and let htmldoc do the rest.
> 
> Expanding that:
> 
> sub my_runmode {
>    # Generating png files, writing the files in the same temp directory
>    # as the soon-to-be html template file
>    $template->param( 'graph1' => 'graph1.png' );
>    # You see, in your template file, you'd have something like
>    # <img src="<!-- tmpl_var name="graph1" -->" ...>
>    $html = $template->output();
>    open( FILE, ">/temp/dir/output.html" );
>    print FILE $html;
>    close ( FILE );
> 
>    # ...
>    $self->header_props(
>        -type	=> 'application/octet-stream',
>        -attachment	=> "$filebase.pdf",
>      );
>    # gather up $output
>    return $output;
> }
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Jason


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