Folks, I understand that this is a browser question. However, maybe some perl experts may have the answer to it, that why my apologies upfront:-) I have a cgi form that takes some user input and plots a perl GD graph. I have the sequence as shown in the code with some actual code. When I use "save Image as" link on the Mozilla firefox, it saves the HTML for form instead of png code. Sorry, I can have parts of the program in the code, since it gets too long. Do I have to open a png file and save the file for the browser to see the png code? Please help. Regards, Rakhee 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
#
# This is the HTML form for selecting projects for QA Metrics
#
use lib qw(/tools/local/lib/perl5);
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use DBI;
use GD::Graph::linespoints;
use Date::Calc qw(check_date Add_Delta_Days);

my $cgi = new CGI;
if ( !$cgi->param ) {
### The form goes here
} else {
if(no_errors) {
##### Run DBI query - get data
#####Plot perl GD graph
        my $title = "Open Bugs for $project_name1";
        my $mygraph = GD::Graph::linespoints->new( 600, 400 );

#my @legend_keys = qw(new_bugs open_bugs reopen_bugs fixed_bugs verifi
+ed_bugs );
        $mygraph->set(
            x_label              => 'Log_Date',
            y_label              => $y_label,
            x_label_skip         => 10,
            x_labels_vertical    => 'true',
            title                => $title,
            legend_placement     => 'BL',
            legend_marker_height => 12,
            dclrs                => [qw(green blue red yellow brown or
+ange)],
        ) or warn $mygraph->error;
        $mygraph->set_legend(@legend_keys);
        $mygraph->set_title_font(GD::gdGiantFont);
        $mygraph->set_x_label_font(GD::gdLargeFont);
        $mygraph->set_y_label_font(GD::gdLargeFont);
        my $myimage = $mygraph->plot( \@data ) or die $mygraph->error;

#        binmode STDOUT;
        print $cgi->header( -type => 'image/png' );
        print $myimage->png;
}

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In reply to Can not save perl GD graph as png on browser by rakheek

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