Re: [OT] pdf creation
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: > Steve Smith wrote: > > > > simran writes: > > > I believe there is also a Content-disposition tag you can use to > > > tell the browser what to name the file... > > > > As mentioned below in my original post, it doesn't work in all > > browsers. > > Like you say, PATH_INFO works for many browsers. I ran into issues with It works for any browser. Browser doesn't no anything about PATH_INFO. > IE not using it properly... I ended up having to tack "&MYPDFFILE.pdf" > onto the end of the URI, just so that it would use the correct > extension. Something to try perhaps. e.g.: > > http://server/perl/pdfgen.pl/MYPDFFILE.pdf?&MYPDFFILE.pdf > > In my case, I had to do this trick to get *.exe files to download as > *.exe instead of *.com. Why do you use "?&MYPDFFILE.pdf" ? I think that http://server/perl/pdfgen.pl/MYPDFFILE.pdf would be enough for MSIE. Igor Sysoev
Re: [OT] pdf creation
Steve Smith wrote: > > simran writes: > > I believe there is also a Content-disposition tag you can use to > > tell the browser what to name the file... > > As mentioned below in my original post, it doesn't work in all > browsers. Like you say, PATH_INFO works for many browsers. I ran into issues with IE not using it properly... I ended up having to tack "&MYPDFFILE.pdf" onto the end of the URI, just so that it would use the correct extension. Something to try perhaps. e.g.: http://server/perl/pdfgen.pl/MYPDFFILE.pdf?&MYPDFFILE.pdf In my case, I had to do this trick to get *.exe files to download as *.exe instead of *.com. In the couple of PDF scripts that I have written, I used other modules to create a PostScript or PNG file, then used a system call to convert it to a PDF. For something that isn't being used very often this should be acceptable. Once its a PDF on the system, the file can read in and printed to STDOUT or a redirect to http://server/tmpfiles/$randomtmpfile can be done. -- Regards, Wim Kerkhoff, Software Engineer Merilus, Inc. -|- http://www.merilus.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [OT] pdf creation
simran writes: > I believe there is also a Content-disposition tag you can use to > tell the browser what to name the file... As mentioned below in my original post, it doesn't work in all browsers. Steve
Re: [OT] pdf creation
Dave Baker wrote: > I ended up using htmldoc (http://www.easysw.com) which does html->pdf in a > breeze (as well as html->ps). So does HTML2PS, which is also GPL'd, and written in 100% Perl. Ghostscript or the Acrobat reader can do the PS2PDF output. See http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html Mike808/ -- perl -le "$_='7284254074:0930970:H4012816';tr[0->][ BOPEN!SMUT];print"
Re: [OT] pdf creation
> Does anyone have success/horror stories generating pdf files under > mod_perl? > Recommendations? > No horror stories except trying to go about it the wrong way a few times and ended up with multi-hundred megabyte TIFF files as intermediate steps. I ended up using htmldoc (http://www.easysw.com) which does html->pdf in a breeze (as well as html->ps). Handy if you want to pdfify something that you've already rendered into HTML for online display. Dave -- - Dave Baker : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://dsb3.com/ - GnuPG: 1024D/D7BCA55D / 09CD D148 57DE 711E 6708 B772 0DD4 51D5 D7BC A55D
RE: [OT] pdf creation
It's on CPAN already. > -Original Message- > From: Oleg Bartunov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 29 October 2001 09:40 > To: Matt Sergeant > Cc: 'Lon Koenig'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [OT] pdf creation > > > Matt, > > do you have a plan to release PDFLib.pm ? _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
RE: [OT] pdf creation
Matt, do you have a plan to release PDFLib.pm ? Oleg On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Lon Koenig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > I apologize for the OT post, but the members of this list seem to be > > authoritive resource for all web/perl solutions. > > > > I'm currently bidding a project, and the client's all in favor of a > > mod_perl solution. Phase 2 of the project requires on-the-fly pdf > > creation. > > > > I've done page layout in other languages, so I'm not too concerned > > about coding the thing. My question is: > > > > Does anyone have success/horror stories generating pdf files > > under mod_perl? > > Recommendations? > > About 6 months ago I had a good look at the various modules available for > PDF creation (for on the fly conversion of XML to PDF using AxKit/mod_perl), > and found that they all suffered from C-like interfaces (i.e. it was > $pdf->start_page, $pdf->end_page, instead of that stuff being automatic), > interface complexity (i.e. changing font and colour mirrored how the > low-level PDF format worked), and very poor support for incorporating > images. Anyway, so I wrote my own, based on pdflib (www.pdflib.com), called > PDFLib.pm. The base pdflib comes with it's own interface called > pdflib_pl.pm, but again it's a C-like interface. So PDFLib.pm is more OO. > Well, I'm biased, but I think it works pretty well (though it's lacking > support for graphics primitives right now), and I use it in AxKit's AxPoint > package to create all my slideshows (see > http://217.158.50.178/docs/presentations/tpc2001/). > > One bonus about PDFLib.pm is that the underlying PDF stuff is all done in C, > so it's likely a bit faster than all the other (pure perl) options. > > I've heard good stuff about PDF::Create though (but I think that's one of > the ones that didn't support images when I was looking). > > Matt. > > _ > This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet > delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further > information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call > Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. > Regards, Oleg _ Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia) Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/ phone: +007(095)939-16-83, +007(095)939-23-83
RE: [OT] pdf creation
> -Original Message- > From: Lon Koenig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I apologize for the OT post, but the members of this list seem to be > authoritive resource for all web/perl solutions. > > I'm currently bidding a project, and the client's all in favor of a > mod_perl solution. Phase 2 of the project requires on-the-fly pdf > creation. > > I've done page layout in other languages, so I'm not too concerned > about coding the thing. My question is: > > Does anyone have success/horror stories generating pdf files > under mod_perl? > Recommendations? About 6 months ago I had a good look at the various modules available for PDF creation (for on the fly conversion of XML to PDF using AxKit/mod_perl), and found that they all suffered from C-like interfaces (i.e. it was $pdf->start_page, $pdf->end_page, instead of that stuff being automatic), interface complexity (i.e. changing font and colour mirrored how the low-level PDF format worked), and very poor support for incorporating images. Anyway, so I wrote my own, based on pdflib (www.pdflib.com), called PDFLib.pm. The base pdflib comes with it's own interface called pdflib_pl.pm, but again it's a C-like interface. So PDFLib.pm is more OO. Well, I'm biased, but I think it works pretty well (though it's lacking support for graphics primitives right now), and I use it in AxKit's AxPoint package to create all my slideshows (see http://217.158.50.178/docs/presentations/tpc2001/). One bonus about PDFLib.pm is that the underlying PDF stuff is all done in C, so it's likely a bit faster than all the other (pure perl) options. I've heard good stuff about PDF::Create though (but I think that's one of the ones that didn't support images when I was looking). Matt. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
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I once did a project using html2pdf under Unix. It worked great for converting the Human Resources forms ( in html ) to printable PDF's that contained variable user information. Worked well and did not cause any real trouble. John- On Sunday, October 28, 2001, at 04:29 PM, Drew Taylor wrote: > At 04:01 PM 10/28/2001 -0600, Lon Koenig wrote: >> I apologize for the OT post, but the members of this list seem to be >> authoritive resource for all web/perl solutions. >> >> I'm currently bidding a project, and the client's all in favor of a >> mod_perl solution. Phase 2 of the project requires on-the-fly pdf >> creation. >> >> Does anyone have success/horror stories generating pdf files under >> mod_perl? >> Recommendations? > > I've used PDFLib for several projects, and it works wonderfully. The > core is written in ANSI C with interfaces for every popular language. > It's not free, but it does a lot and works very well. > http://www.pdflib.com/ > > > Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H > http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God bless America! *** > ICQ: 135298242 > > > >
Re: [OT] pdf creation
At 04:01 PM 10/28/2001 -0600, Lon Koenig wrote: >I apologize for the OT post, but the members of this list seem to be >authoritive resource for all web/perl solutions. > >I'm currently bidding a project, and the client's all in favor of a >mod_perl solution. Phase 2 of the project requires on-the-fly pdf creation. > >Does anyone have success/horror stories generating pdf files under mod_perl? >Recommendations? I've used PDFLib for several projects, and it works wonderfully. The core is written in ANSI C with interfaces for every popular language. It's not free, but it does a lot and works very well. http://www.pdflib.com/ Drew Taylor JA[P|m_p|SQL]H http://www.drewtaylor.com/ Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** God bless America! *** ICQ: 135298242
Re: [OT] pdf creation
> Does anyone have success/horror stories generating pdf files under > mod_perl? Recommendations? I recently built a customer billing system system that generated PDF invoices using Latex + Template-Toolkit. See http://template-toolkit.org/docs/blue/Manual/Filters.html This was an backend system, but the files could easily be generated online by simply wrapping the template processor in a handler with the appropriate Content-Type: headers. Tip: Although the Content-Disposition: header is supposed to tell the browser the appropriate filename for the file, this doesn't actually work in most browsers. The solution is to extend the URL past the handler/script, e.g. : http://server/perl/pdfgen.pl/MYPDFFILE.pdf Apache will dispatch this to pdfgen.pl, but the browser will assume the default filename is MYPDFFILE.pdf. Hope this helps, Steve
[OT] pdf creation
I apologize for the OT post, but the members of this list seem to be authoritive resource for all web/perl solutions. I'm currently bidding a project, and the client's all in favor of a mod_perl solution. Phase 2 of the project requires on-the-fly pdf creation. I've done page layout in other languages, so I'm not too concerned about coding the thing. My question is: Does anyone have success/horror stories generating pdf files under mod_perl? Recommendations? -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lon Koenig Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] (612) 965-6305 http://www.schnoggo.com
