You are telling perl to read your pdf line by line, and then putting the line into a variable. With binary data, a byte sequence that looks like a line ending (0A on unix, 0D0A on Windows) could appear anywhere in your file. What you end up with is binary data that is, for lack of a better term, mangled.

You can get around the problem by doing this 

my $readbuf;

  while (
    read (INF, $readbuf, 32767)    # read in (up to) 32k chunks
)
{$pdf .= $readbuf}

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Now, instead of reading to a newline, which is probably a random byte somewhere inside the pdf, you are reading in 32k bytes at a time. Your pdf stays in tact, and you shouldn't have any trouble.

HTH, digger

In reply to Re: Object Label Badly Formatted by digger
in thread Object Label Badly Formatted by Anonymous Monk

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