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hi people, could you help me ? where can i send bug reports ? pdf-api2 really rocks, but i have big problem. when i use localization in perl (such, that uses...
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2343
This is from way back but Stephen Bill or anybody else... do you have any code to share for creating tables? We have code for that that works in html and will...
Tim Turner
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Nov 9, 2004
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2344
Hello, I searched the archive and found a few mentions but could not find the solution.... When I run a test script it returns this error: Unknown encoding...
Tim Turner
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Nov 17, 2004
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hi! ... hard to tell without seeing the actual script, but based on the given message: it is not a pdfapi2 error :) cheers, -- __ _ / _|_ __ ___...
fredo
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Nov 17, 2004
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The 2 lines of code causing the error are: my $font = $pdf->corefont( "Helvetica-Bold", 1 ); $font->encode("latin1"); ... From: fredo...
Tim Turner
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Nov 17, 2004
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... You should check your psfonts and make sure the fonts arein the path. Also check the fontnames: Is the font called Helvetica-Bold or HelveticaBold? Try...
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Nov 17, 2004
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hi! ... ah, you have to convert your code to the new 0.40 style: my $font = $pdf->corefont( "Helvetica-Bold", -encode=>"latin1"); cheers, -- __ _ ...
fredo
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Nov 17, 2004
3:28 pm
2349
Hi, I make pdf files with ttf fonts in different encodings, whith the iso-8859-9 encoding, The scedilla and Scedilla characters are not displayed in "older"...
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Nov 17, 2004
4:41 pm
2350
Fredo hit the nail on the head... That was the problem... Fredo, you sir are cool... Very cool. As a technogeek for the last 14 years I can really appreciate...
Tim Turner
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Nov 17, 2004
5:27 pm
2351
Hello, I understand how to palce text at a specific location... but is there a better way to find the exact aligned coordinates without just using ...
turnertim
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Nov 18, 2004
3:54 pm
2352
I'm not sure what exactly you are asking. I'll answer how I deal with putting objects on a page (text image pdf etc.). sub INCH {72}; # put text at 4 inches by...
Mark Fowle
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Nov 18, 2004
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2353
Shoot. So I get all excited about upgrading to the dev release of .40_67 (for the openScalar function) and then I go and discover that it requires 5.008. But...
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Nov 18, 2004
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By golly it's so simple I think it might work :-) Thank you. _____ From: Mark Fowle [mailto:mfowle@...] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 11:10 AM ...
Tim Turner
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Nov 18, 2004
5:22 pm
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hi! ... unicode is an essential building-block for font-support. if you dont want to write anything (not even ascii), you could patch the module ;) cheers, -- ...
fredo
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Nov 18, 2004
5:45 pm
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Tim, If you're trying to overlay text onto a pdf, here's some code that ... #!/usr/bin/perl -w ...
Joe Vigil
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Nov 18, 2004
6:18 pm
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... Here is a program that prints a 1/10 inch grid. It has two pages for those who do duplex printing. When you hold the page up to the light, the grids should...
Shawn Corey
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Nov 18, 2004
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2358
Hello, There were a number of posts in the archive about a styled text widget that lets you control aspects of text and also use html styles in paragraph text...
turnertim
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Nov 19, 2004
3:35 pm
2359
... PDF does not have any margins. The media box is the area on the paper where the printer can physically print. If you do not specific the media box, the PDF...
Shawn Corey
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Nov 19, 2004
3:46 pm
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txt objects can be reused: my $txt1_1 = $page->text ; $txt1_1->compress ; $txt1_1->font($font, 20); $txt1_1->translate(5.6*72, 6.5*72); ...
Mark Fowle
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Nov 19, 2004
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... The difference is how much work you do and how much you leave to PDF::API2. Don't forget in PDF a font is a just another graphic object. ... I re-use the...
Shawn Corey
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Nov 19, 2004
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So since we can't determine the printable area of the printer... Do you just try to use a decent margin and assume it works on most printers? If we have a 0.5...
Tim Turner
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Nov 19, 2004
8:13 pm
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I believe the default in most windows programs is shrink to fit(all Adobe acrobat readers that I have seen). So if you chose a page size of 8.5x11 you will...
Mark Fowle
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Nov 19, 2004
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2364
How do I create an image object from a .jpg or .gif image on the disk (i.e. I know the path to the image) and then add it to a page? I saw a couple of posts...
turnertim
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Nov 20, 2004
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2365
I tried some code I found that uses Text/PDF/API/Image.pm to create an image from a file but when I use that I get this error: Can't locate...
Tim Turner
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Nov 20, 2004
5:16 am
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... This works for me. See perldoc PDF::API2::Content for details on $gfx->image(). #!/usr/bin/perl use PDF::API2; my $imageFile = 'test/jpg'; my $doc = new...
Shawn Corey
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Nov 20, 2004
3:35 pm
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use PDF::API2; $pdf = PDF::API2->new; $gfx = $page->gfx(); $txt = $page->text(); $img = $pdf->image('/path/picture.jpg'); # image is (image,x,y,width,height) ...
Mark Fowle
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Nov 22, 2004
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hi! no fix, sorry. adobe changed its glyph-list two times (AGL 1.1/1.2) before 2001, and than again to match the unicode 3.0 and opentype specs. so the effect...
fredo
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Nov 22, 2004
2:18 pm
2369
hi! ... the "unknown" default page-size is documented in the pdf-spec, which is 8.5x11 in. a reasonable (publishing wise) margin is 36pt. (= 0.5 in.), but i...
fredo
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Nov 22, 2004
2:31 pm
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hi! ... Text::PDF::API is ages old (1998?) module code long out of service. the basic code readslike this: #!/usr/bin/perl use PDF::API2; $pdf=PDF::API2->new; ...
fredo
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Nov 22, 2004
2:39 pm
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hi! ... you might want to look at: http://search.cpan.org/~autrijus/PDF-Writer-0.03/ http://search.cpan.org/~autrijus/PDF-Template-PDFAPI2-0.40_09/ ...
fredo
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