Perhaps you should read some of the Tutorials (for example File Input and Output and perhaps Installing Modules) from this site, http://learn.perl.org along with http://perldoc.perl.org are also great resources for learning perl. PDF::Create comes with sample code and documentation showing you how use the module.

hope this helps

Martin

hi, again.. here is my little script.. every time i tried to run it, seems that is not able to read input file. Is there something that i missed in my script below ? thanks lorenzo alcatel@alexiim-as1:~> ./lorenzo.pl /home/alcatel/.scripts/table.dbdm1 Could not open : No such file or directory alcatel@alexiim-as1:~> #!/usr/bin/perl use PDF::Create; open(F, "<$input") or die "Could not open $input: $!\n"; while (<F>) { chomp; print "$_ \n"; #shows you what we have read } close F;

You never define $input