flin2 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks,

I am trying to extract a page from a pdf file. I use perl
on a Unix platform and installed the module PDF::Extract. Here is the code i use.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use PDF::Extract;     
$pdf=newPDF::Extract(PDFPages=>"1",PDFDoc=>"/folder/form.pdf");
$pdf->savePDFExtract(PDFPages=>"1",
PDFDoc=>'/folder/form.pdf',PDFCache=>"/folder");

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When i use servePDFExtract... it looks like that it's working.
I get output on STDOUT.
But when i use savePDFExtract and try to output to PDFCache=>"/folder" i do not get form1_.pdf in /folder.
On Windows platform it seems to work ok, but form1_.pdf is always saved on C:\
Please help.

Thanks.
flin.

20030509 Edit by Corion: Changed title, added CODE tags

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Re: PDF
by nite_man (Deacon) on May 09, 2003 at 08:35 UTC
    Try to check PDF extracting errors: 
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use PDF::Extract;

my $pdf=newPDF::Extract(PDFPages=>"1", PDFDoc=>"/folder/form.pdf");

my $res $pdf->savePDFExtract(PDFPages=>"1", PDFDoc=>'/folder/form.pdf'
+, PDFCache=>"/folder");

print 'ERROR: '.$pdf->getVars("PDFError") unless $res;

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    and permissions of your dir where you tried store result. 
          
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