Hi brethren, I am using Perl, template toolkit and latex to write to a PDF file. I would like some way of being able to record an error log or when my PDF file shows nothing (which suggests there is an error) I like to be able to read a log that tells me what the error is. This is the code that creates the template file and prints the output: 
my $vars = {title => '', rows => \@rows, inv_add => \@inv_rows};
my $temp = '/tmp/TEST_'.$inv_no.'_'.$$;
my $file = $temp.".tex";
$tt->process('printInvoice.tmpl', $vars, $file) || die $tt->error();
system("Can I write something here of some use???");
print header(-type=>'application/pdf');
open(PDF, $temp.'.pdf');
while (<PDF>) {
    print $_;
}
close(PDF);

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Thanks for your wisdom.

In reply to Perl, latex and linux Error logging by hamidafshar

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