fellow monks,

I have the following script that gathers some stuff from a MySQL database and generates a PDF File, and it's all done through CGI.

problem is, the client wants it to open inline whenever possible, so here's my header: 
use CGI qw/header/;

print header(-type => 'application/pdf',
         -content_disposition => 'inline'
);

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I'm using PDF::Create, and here's the start code: 
use PDF::Create;

my $pdf = new PDF::Create( #'filename' => 'test.pdf', 
              'fh'    =>  *STDOUT,
              'Version'  => 1.2,
              'PageMode' => 'UserOutlines',
              'Author'   => 'test',
              'Title'    => 'Invoice...'
              );

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if I output to a file, it's correct, but when I output to STDOUT and use the browser, I have to press Refresh everytime so that acrobat shows the page.

is this just a browser hickup? (trying on IE6 btw) or should something be done to the output? the same script is used for other requests, and every time the result is diffrent one time it works and one time it's doesn't, but I can't figure out why..

Thanx in advance.
He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life.

Chady | http://chady.net/

In reply to Inline PDF not showing. by Chady

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