I recently upgraded from Active State Perl 5.16.2 to 5.20.2 on my Win7 (64-bit) system. Most went well except for one script (which had been in daily use for a few years. It now fails with the message: 
Can't locate object method "new" via package "Win32::API" at C:\USERS\
+BILL\PERL\
LIB/PDFPrint.pm line 15.

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I have attached the module PDFPrint.pm referenced by the message. The code originally came from a post (Print PDF using Win32::OLE and Acrobat Reader) in this forum

Notes: In the install procedure, I saved and restored the ppm module configuration with ppm profile save/restore. While attempting to diagnose the problem, I noticed that a newer version of Win32::API was available on ppm. Installing the newer version did not change the result at all.

Would someone please suggest a way to resolve this issue.

I also have an unrelated issue with this “upgrade” because ActiveState has removed Perl/Tk from their ppm repository.

Bill

In reply to Win32::API in perl v5.20.2 by BillKSmith

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