Re: PDF::API2 behaving differently on two computers?

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Can you reduce the program to a very short program that still exhibits the problem? I'm thinking of something like:

#!perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use PDF::API2;

print "Using PDF::API2 version $PDF::API2::VERSION\n";

my $pdf = PDF::API2->new;
my $bg_file = 'watermark.pdf';
my $bg = $pdf->importPageIntoForm( $bg_file, 1 );

# ...

$page->gfx->formimage( $bg, 0, 0, 1.0 )

# write to another file
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That would help me understand your steps better and maybe point out where the problem(s) might lie.

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Re^2: PDF::API2 behaving differently on two computers? by trillich (Sexton) on Apr 08, 2020 at 20:42 UTC
Aha, this was a helpful kick in the pants. When I do a simple script as you suggest, everything works swimmingly. So there's something in the home-grown modules in between, that we are using, that's corrupting things. So at least I have a starting point for sleuthing now. One thing I've noticed in the past, is that I must disable `$pdf->{forcecompress} = 0`. Sometimes it's okay even with forcecompress left enabled, other times it really scrambles the presentation when displaying via a PDF reader (text enormous or skewed or mispositioned on the page). Turning it off makes it so there's dependable display of the results. Is that common -- where `forcecompress` causes issues?	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: PDF::API2 behaving differently on two computers?
by trillich (Sexton) on Apr 08, 2020 at 20:42 UTC

Aha, this was a helpful kick in the pants. When I do a simple script as you suggest, everything works swimmingly. So there's something in the home-grown modules in between, that we are using, that's corrupting things. So at least I have a starting point for sleuthing now.

One thing I've noticed in the past, is that I must disable $pdf->{forcecompress} = 0. Sometimes it's okay even with forcecompress left enabled, other times it really scrambles the presentation when displaying via a PDF reader (text enormous or skewed or mispositioned on the page). Turning it off makes it so there's dependable display of the results.

Is that common -- where forcecompress causes issues?

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