Phillip,
Thanks, but this is not quite what I was looking for.
When the user clicks on "Quiz1" a perl script will be called to generate
and compile a tex file using pdflatex. Once that is complete, I will have a
file Quiz1.pdf which I want to send back to the user.
Thanks.
At 10:09 PM 7/21/04 +0000, Philipp Traeder wrote:
>On Wednesday 21 July 2004 HH:53:19, David Arnold wrote:
>> All,
>
>Hi David,
>>
>> I have a page with a link "Quiz1".
>>
>> When the user clicks on the the link, a perl script will be summoned that
>> will populate forms of a pdf document.
>>
>> Now, I could create a new page at this point with a link to the newly
>> created pdf, but could someone suggest a technique where I simply send the
>> pdf to the user after the pdf forms have been populated?
>>
>> Does that sound like a redirect or does someone have a better suggestion?
>>
>
>if I understand your problem correctly, you want to generate a pdf file when
>the user clicks a link, and when the pdf is generated completely, you want
to
>send it back to him?
>
>If yes, just create the pdf file on the fly and send it back - I don't know
>how to generate pdf files in perl, therefore I'll just give you an example
>that creates a text file (untested, for demonstration only):
>
>#!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
>use strict;
>use CGI;
>
>my $query = new CGI();
>
># print the header (you need to modify this to the correct content-type for
>pdfs)
>print $query -> header(-type => 'text/plain');
>
>for (my $loop = 1; $loop <= 10; $loop++) {
> print "line $loop\n";
>}
>
>If you execute this as CGI script, the user will receive a text file that he
>can save. I think you should be able to do the same for PDFs.
>
>HTH,
>
>Philipp
>
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