Re: How to make work HTML::HTMLDoc on browser?

I have tweaked your code and this works for me. Remember to use strict and warnings especially important if you have an error but nothing is appearing in the logs. For delivering a pdf to a browser you need a content type header.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI;
my $cgi=new CGI;
print $cgi->header( -type => 'application/pdf' );

use HTML::HTMLDoc;
my $htmldoc = new HTML::HTMLDoc();

$htmldoc->set_html_content('<html><body>A PDF file</body></html>');

my $pdf = $htmldoc->generate_pdf();

print $pdf->to_string();
$pdf->to_file('newpdfdoc.pdf');
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Re^2: How to make work HTML::HTMLDoc on browser? by elavarasan (Acolyte) on Apr 16, 2013 at 07:25 UTC
while using you code it returns following error File does not begin with '%PDF-',	[reply]
Re^3: How to make work HTML::HTMLDoc on browser? by rnewsham (Curate) on Apr 16, 2013 at 07:35 UTC
It sounds like your problem may be with the install of htmldoc on your system. Are you able to use htmldoc from the command line to generate a valid pdf? Are there any errors reported in the logs from my example code?	[reply]
Re^4: How to make work HTML::HTMLDoc on browser? by elavarasan (Acolyte) on Apr 16, 2013 at 08:18 UTC
no in command line no error it generates valid pdf	[reply]
Re^5: How to make work HTML::HTMLDoc on browser? by marto (Cardinal) on Apr 16, 2013 at 10:46 UTC
Re^4: How to make work HTML::HTMLDoc on browser? by divinafaudan (Initiate) on Aug 02, 2013 at 13:24 UTC
Hi rnewsham , I have the same issue with elavarasan. Please help me solve it. I've been working on this for more than a week now. Please see my codes below #!/usr/bin/perl5 use HTML::HTMLDoc; use strict; use warnings; use CGI; my $cgi=new CGI; print $cgi->header( -type => 'application/pdf' ); my $htmldoc = new HTML::HTMLDoc('mode'=>'file', 'tmpdir'=>'/tmp'); $htmldoc->set_permissions('all'); $htmldoc->set_html_content(qq~<html><body><table border=1><tr><td cols +pan=2>A PDF file</td></tr><tr><td>Column 1</td><td><img src='freight- +charge.jpg'></td></tr></table></body></html>~); # $htmldoc->set_input_file($filename); # alternative to use a present +file from your fs my $pdf = $htmldoc->generate_pdf(); print $pdf->to_string(); $pdf->to_file('foo.pdf'); [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: How to make work HTML::HTMLDoc on browser? by rnewsham (Curate) on Aug 02, 2013 at 22:59 UTC
Re^6: How to make work HTML::HTMLDoc on browser? by divinafaudan (Initiate) on Aug 05, 2013 at 00:24 UTC
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