Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks,

I installed App::pod2pdf from CPAN to a local library ~/mylib/lib/perl5 and tried to use it from the command line like:

 perldoc -f each | pod2pdf > each.pdf

and bash returns that it can't find the pod2pdf package...

Then I installed pod2pdf from Ubuntu's software center, and tried the same command line input, this time it created a each.pdf file. But when I open it I only saw a blank page with 'STDIN' on the right upper corner and 'Page 1' on the bottom.

Could someone please tell me how to make it work?

Thank you very much!!

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Re: pod2pdf print blank page
by aitap (Curate) on Sep 10, 2012 at 16:15 UTC
    This is because text returned by perldoc is no more POD, but is just plain text. For example: 
    $ head /usr/share/perl/5.14/pod/perldoc.pod

=head1 NAME

perldoc - Look up Perl documentation in Pod format.

=head1 SYNOPSIS

B<perldoc> [B<-h>] [B<-D>] [B<-t>] [B<-u>] [B<-m>] [B<-l>] [B<-F>]
[B<-i>] [B<-V>] [B<-T>] [B<-r>]
[B<-dI<destination_file>>]
$ perldoc perldoc | head
PERLDOC(1)            User Contributed Perl Documentation           PE
+RLDOC(1)



NAME
       perldoc - Look up Perl documentation in Pod format.

SYNOPSIS
       perldoc [-h] [-D] [-t] [-u] [-m] [-l] [-F] [-i] [-V] [-T] [-r]
       [-ddestination_file] [-oformatname] [-MFormatterClassName]

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    Try perldoc -u <whatever> | pod2pdf instead (option -u makes perldoc show just raw Pod source).
    Sorry if my advice was wrong.
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      I do not have pod2pdf, but I can confirm that the following variant seems to work nicely on my Windoze system: 

      perldoc -u -f each | pod2html  > junque\each.html

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      Thank you very much, aitap! It worked this time =D
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