Would it help if I sent you the pdf? Here it is. It was converted from notepad using the adobe printer conversion with the conversion format set to 1.4 I have adobe acrobat XI, but that updates the pdf to a newer version. So I'm now using CutePdf (there's a free 30 day trial) to create the form. When I add a text field it defaults to Helvetica-bold. I tried it with courier and got the following result. I'm alos including the pdf for you.
Could not find resource /Cour while preparing form field name
at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/CAM/PDF.pm line 4616
CAM::PDF::fillFormFields('CAM::PDF=HASH(0xbacac44)', 'name', 'Straw, KA', 'phn', 9029821599, 'email', 'straw@medinetmail.ca') called at referral2.cgi line 408
Thanks for the quick response.
Doug
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From: Chris Dolan via RT [mailto:bug-CAM-PDF@rt.cpan.org]
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 5:34 AM
To: dougp@prostyle.com
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #83698] bug in CAM::PDF
<URL:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83698 >
I don't know. That means that CAM::PDF can't create the text to fill in the field because it can't locate that font resource to figure out what font to use for the field. Perhaps the PDF is corrupt, or it's just a type of PDF I haven't come across before...
Chris
On Feb 28, 2013, at 6:53 PM, dougp via RT <bug-CAM-PDF@rt.cpan.org> wrote:
> Thu Feb 28 19:53:45 2013: Request 83698 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by dougp@prostyle.com
> Queue: CAM-PDF
> Subject: bug in CAM::PDF
> Broken in: (no value)
> Severity: (no value)
> Owner: Nobody
> Requestors: dougp@prostyle.com
> Status: new
> Ticket <URL:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83698 >
>
>
> I'm new to running CAM::PDF (having just downloaded it off CPAN) but
> I've been searching for a PDF form filler I can run inside a perl
> script and yours fit's the bill nicely.
>
> I have a very simple pdf that I'm testing with and a very short perl script.
> The code I'm running is:
> $cam = CAM::PDF->new("testform.pdf");
> (@fields) = $cam->getFormFieldList();
>
> $cam->fillFormFields(name=>$name,phn=>$phn,email=>$patemail);
> $cam->save();
> $cam->output("refer_$phn.pdf");
>
> Testform is a 1.4 version pdf file with three fields. @fields contains
> name, phn and email after the getFormFieldList command.
>
> The error I get is:
>
> main::(referral2.cgi:408):
> $cam->fillFormFields(name=>$name,phn=>$phn,email=>$patemail);
>
> DB<3> n
> Could not find resource /HeBo while preparing form field name at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/CAM/PDF.pm line 4616
> CAM::PDF::fillFormFields('CAM::PDF=HASH(0xae7ca44)', 'name',
> 'Straw, KA', 'phn', 9029821599, 'email', 'straw@medinetmail.ca')
> called at referral2.cgi line 408
>
> Am I missing something or misusing the product?
>
> Any help is appreciated and I hope to get a lot of use out of this.
>
> Doug Poulin
>
>
