Thanks PodMaster, that was it precisely. I rewrote the programs as follows:
encode_base64.pl:
#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use MIME::Base64 qw( encode_base64 );
open INFILE, '<', $ARGV[0];
binmode INFILE;
open OUTFILE, '>', $ARGV[1];
my $buf;
while ( read( INFILE, $buf, 60 * 57 ) ) {
print OUTFILE encode_base64( $buf );
}
close OUTFILE;
close INFILE;
__END__
decode_base64.pl:
#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use MIME::Base64 qw( decode_base64 );
open INFILE, '<', $ARGV[0];
open OUTFILE, '>', $ARGV[1];
binmode OUTFILE;
my $buf;
while ( $buf = <INFILE> ) {
print OUTFILE decode_base64( $buf );
}
close OUTFILE;
close INFILE;
__END__
The PDF decoded correctly this time. Thanks!
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