Re: .pdf files in a perl cgi application?

[David Dorward]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:58:52AM -0700, Mary Anderson wrote:

>> (Please keep this on the mailing list)

No, really. Please keep this on the mailing list. You do that by
emailing beginners-cgi@perl.org rather than my private address.
 
> Its not a cgi "macro image" but a "cgi macro" image.

Oh. The img method of the CGI object.

> Just the image function that expands into the html  tag.

That's an HTML issue, not a CGI issue.

PDF files aren't images, and aren't supported by browsers as images.

> It won't accept .pdf files.

No, you could try an object element, but PDFs are not nice things to
view in a browser window at the best of times, embedded inside a tiny
frame in a page - eugh.

> Is there anyway the user can download a file through the web without
> opening it?

They can configure their client to not use the plugin.

You could also look at sending a content disposition of
attachment. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2183.txt

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Re: .pdf files in a perl cgi application?

[David Dorward]

(Please keep this on the mailing list)

Mary Anderson wrote:

> All I do with the files is to display them using the cgi.pm macro
> image.  Then the user can download them.  Do you know if this also works
> with a pdf file?  

What is a "macro image"? The phrase does not appear it the CGI.pm
documentation ( http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.29/CGI.pm ).



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Re: .pdf files in a perl cgi application?

[David Dorward]

Mary Anderson wrote:
>I have successfully put .gif, .jpg , etc. images into my application.  A
> user has just sent me some .pdf files, which must be read with Acrobat
> Reader, I assume.

No, there are plenty of libraries for dealing with PDFs that are not
Acrobat Reader.

>  How would I work these into my application?

In what sense? There are plenty of things you /could/ do with PDF files
in a CGI app. What do you actually want to do?

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.pdf files in a perl cgi application?

[Mary Anderson]

Hi all,
   I have successfully put .gif, .jpg , etc. images into my application.  A
user has just sent me some .pdf files, which must be read with Acrobat
Reader, I assume.  How would I work these into my application?

Thanks
Mary

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