Create your PDF however you like then send a page of MIIME type x-pdf (check
the exact type). There are Perl modules for directly creating PDF as well but
iit doesn't matter how your output buffer gets a PDF into it.
-----Original Message-----
From: "Jerry Kaidor" <je...@tr2.com>
Sender: cgiapp-boun...@lists.erlbaum.net
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 22:09:47
To: <cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net>
Reply-To: CGI Application <cgiapp@lists.erlbaum.net>
Subject: [cgiapp] Output PDF instead of HTML?
Hello,
I have an application I've been writing and using now for some years,
in support of my business. I use CGI::Application, and the login and
authentication plugins.
It sometimes would be nice to be able to serve PDF data instead of
HTML. These are not disk files: they are PDF reports that are
algorithmically generated. ( Generally, I use perl to generate TeX and
convert it to PDF with pdflatex ).
I have done some web searching, and nothing jumps out at me, with the
possible exception of something in CGI.pm about being able to specify
different or custom headers. When I try that, the "custom headers" wind up
as text inside an html wrapper. Quite useless.
Is there something about CGI::Application and the login plugin that
restricts output to HTML?
I suppose I could try redirection: user clicks on the "create a PDF"
link, the system responds by creating the PDF, storing it on disk in a
temp location, and returning a browser redirect to make the browser get
the temp file. Ick.
- Jerry Kaidor ( je...@tr2.com )
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