Bug #23790 for PDF-EasyPDF: Bug - PDF::EasyPDF

Hey :) Love the simplicity of EasyPDF, but you forgot something - in a PDF file, strings for text objects are delimited by () parentheses. When the text function is called with a string containing parentheses, the produced PDF is flagged as corrupted by Acrobat Reader. The solution for this is to use the escape characters \( and \) to replace parentheses characters - here's a mod to EasyPDF.pm that does the job: ... sub text { my $self = shift; my ($x,$y,$text) = @_; $text =~ s/\(/\\\(/; #change $text =~ s/\)/\\\)/; #change ... - The two REGEX operations substitute all ( with \( and all ) with \). I've tested it in a variety of situations, it's extremely straightforward anyway - so if you could patch that into the module and re-upload to CPAN or whatever, I'm sure you'd save some people some grief - I know I spent 2 hours trying to find the bug in my script before I opened up the PDF in a plaintext editor and saw the () delimited strings. XD. Hope this message finds you and is of use. -- Anthony Carapetis mailto:bigcroc@aapt.net.au