Re: Problem with PDFLIB barcode generation

use PDFlib;

Is this different from PDFLib on CPAN (note the capital "L")? If so, then ignore the rest of this post.

my $pdfInstance = new PDFlib::PDFlib;

PDFlib::PDFlib looks different from the PDFLib SYNOPSIS:

use PDFLib;
my $pdf = PDFLib->new("foo.pdf");
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Other considerations:

Reduce your code to the minimum required to reproduce your problem. If you suspect PDFLib to be the issue, you should be able to demonstrate the problem with about 5 lines of code.
Try to contact the module author via email for advice.

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Re^2: Problem with PDFLIB barcode generation by sriram_perl_diver (Novice) on Nov 06, 2014 at 05:11 UTC
Thanks for the reply toolic The PDFLib you suggested from CPAN is different from what I'm using. http://pdflib.com/ I apologize for putting up the whole code. The place where I'm getting the error is `my $font = $pdfInstance->load_font("Helvetica", "winansi", ""); if ($font == 0) { print LOGFILE ("\nERROR in creating font instance:", $pdfInstance- +>get_errmsg()); print "\nERROR in creating font instance\n\n"; }` [download] Both the Print statements are printing out the custom error message I typed (i.e.,ERROR in creating font instance). But the exception message coming from $pdfInstance->get_errmsg() is empty. Previously I got the file not found exception for pdflib.upr, which I fixed by using the resourcefile parameter available in pdflib. I added the font location in the upr file I mentioned above. But yet the code is failing. The system I'm working on is AIX. I'm not sure whether the 'Helvetica' font is available in that environment. Could this be a reason? Thanks	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Problem with PDFLIB barcode generation by toolic (Bishop) on Nov 06, 2014 at 15:14 UTC
There is a contact email address on that website. Give it a try.	[reply]