My CGI form submits a whole load of values, I do stuff with the values and then send some output to the user - the catch is the output is in the form of a PDF file. So at the end of my script, after I've done stuff with the input, I have 
use CGI qw/:standard/;

open PDF, "test.pdf" or die "cd not open test.pdf";
my $buffer;
read PDF, $buffer, -s(PDF);

print
    header(
        -type => "application/pdf\n\n",
    ),
    $buffer;

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I shd add that the "action" in the form is "my_file.pl?ext=.pdf" - that is, I think I've done all this good stuff to stop IE5 getting confused. And test.pdf is a real PDF file - if I link directly to it, I see what I expect to see. BUT the output from the above code is not a PDF file, but the "source code" of the PDF. I have a feeling I must be doing something very simple wrong... can any kind monk tell me what?

§ George Sherston

In reply to Outputting PDF via CGI by George_Sherston

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