My data is in two column table format, so I don't think POD will pull it off, but I'll give it a glance anyway. Does POD support pagebreaks?

Yeah, I would experiment with other POD::*, or a *2pdf utility. POD doesn't do pagebreaks (as far as I have ever read), but the PDF module/utility will give you a way to define the page dimensions.. so it should add pagebreaks.

No, sadly the user is not logged in. This isn't mod_perl, just straight CGI, so I could use the PID I suppose. hmm. Other than a cronjob, I have no idea how to automatically unlink the file, since the CGI creating the PDF will end presumably long before the PDF is completely downloaded.

I do this: 

my $out = pod2pdf(@args);
print "Content-Type: application/pdf\n";
print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$username.tasks.pdf\n
+\n";
unlink "./pod/$username.tasks.$$.pod";
binmode(STDOUT);
return print $out;

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Of course, YMMV depending on the module you use. I think I had hacked POD::Pdf to return the Pdf data instead of just writing it to the file. I don't recall. But, otherwise you could just read the file in and print it:

my $out;
{ 
    local $/ = undef;
    open(PDF, "$file") or die "foo $!";
    $out = <PDF>;
    close PDF;
}

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Or whatever fits your fancy.

Cheers,
KM

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Avoiding race conditions by KM
in thread Avoiding race conditions by swiftone

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