Re: PDF pain
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:04:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PDF pain | ||
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Have a look at the example here:
http://pres.lerdorf.com/show/oscon2002/48
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Michael Hall wrote:
>
>
> I THINK I have installed pdflib and compiled it into PHP 4.2.1 OK.
> At least, configure/make/make install all went OK and it is trying to
> work.
>
> I copied the sample 'Hello World in PDF' script out of Programming PHP (p
> 234) into a file named pdftest.pdf
>
> When I try to access http://localhost/pdftest.pdf, Konqueror
> tries to open
> a PDF file but then spits the dummy saying:
>
> "Could not open file
> blahblah.pdf which has type application/x-zerosize. KGhostview can only
> open Postscript and Portable Document Format files"
>
> So it looks like a header problem or something?
>
> This raises a few other questions:
>
> - Should the PHP script be called pdftest.php or pdftest.pdf?
>
> - Does httpd.conf need an AddType directive for pdf files? I've tried a
> few variations on "AddType application/x-pdf .pdf" etc
>
> - Should .pdf be added to the php AddType directive?
> eg. "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .pdf
>
> Basically, I'm confused. Anyone been there done that?
>
> TIA
>
> Michael
>
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