On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:13:48PM +0100, jonasbn wrote: > I am currently working on a bingo game in Perl (its a long story). > > The next step in the development is to be able to produce bingo plates > and I have been given some code dependent on PDFLib from a kind soul. > > I have downloaded the PDFLib tarball from www.pdflib.com, but I cannot > seem to find any installation guidelines, and the package looks somewhat > weird. > > have any of you installed these libraries, and can provide me with a link > or a brief explanation on how to proceed?
Matt Sergeant described how to generate such things in one of his use.perl.org journal entries. That'd require little more than pdflib and his PDFLib.pm module to produce. Maybe that's the code you're heading towards... To install pdflib you should grab the source tarball and simply follow the generic unix installation instructions (ie, ./configure, make, sudo make install). I'm pretty sure it **just worked** under 10.1.x when I installed the libraries onto my machine. Yep, just found a noteworthy piece of shouting amidst my old pdflib compile notes: it goes like this... "HOORAY, NO NEED FOR ACROBATICS ANYMORE: PDFLIB 4.02 IS UP AND RUNNING STRAIGHT OUT OF THE BOX!!" It sounds like you might have grabbed the binary distribution, which will watermark all the pages it produces until you buy a "not-inexpensive" license. At the bottom of the download page (http://www.pdflib.com/pdflib/download/index.html) you'll see Unix: pdflib-4.0.3.tar.gz Hopefully that tarball should look a lot more familiar. If you have any problems with that give the list archives the once-over: details are provided at http://www.pdflib.com/pdflib/resources.html Best of luck, Paul
