Hello Chris,
Thank you for your error report.
The error occurs when the program tries to write the very first lines
of the PDF-document. The snippet of code looks like this:
binmode UTFIL;
$utrad = '%PDF-1.4' . "\n" . '%âãÏÓ' . "\n";
$pos = syswrite UTFIL, $utrad;
It is the sentence with syswrite that fails.
It looks like your system doesn't like to print the characters '%âãÏÓ'.
They are put here in the beginning of the file to give a signal to e.g.
file transfer programs that the document may contain binary data. You
can find these characters in practically every PDF-document. It is
almost a standard.
Or your system refuses to write to the disc ? (the error message
doesn't say anything about that). What directory or file does it try to
write to ?
I have not got Red Hat Linux, so I can't say why it doesn't work.
Please send me the program ex2_pl (if you have changed it in some way)
or something more so I can try to find a solution. I am sure these
lines of code has run thousands of times in different environments
without failing. It is very surprising.
Best Regards
Lars Lundberg
elkelund@worldonline.se
[guest - Tue Oct 14 15:44:51 2003]:
Show quoted text> [root@localhost examples]# perl ex2_pl
> Wide character in syswrite at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/PDF/Reuse.pm line 268.
>
> I am running RedHAT 8.0 and perl 5.8.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Pizzo
RT for rt.cpan.org