Re: PDF pain

Thanks for all the suggestions. I am making progress after discovering a typo in my code (single quotes in a header() string containing a $var ... double quotes fixed it). Now I get a pdf document but no text :-( If I save the doc to disk and try to open it with xpdf, it complains that the "xref table" is broken and that it can't find a "trailer dictionary". ??? Michael On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Jason Wong wrote: > On Friday 19 July 2002 21:54, 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 > > I think you want the name to be 'pdftest.php'. Try it and see what you get. > > > 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" > > That's because your 'pdf' file is in actual fact a raw php file. > > > So it looks like a header problem or something? > > No. > > > This raises a few other questions: > > > > - Should the PHP script be called pdftest.php or pdftest.pdf? > > The former. > > > - Does httpd.conf need an AddType directive for pdf files? I've tried a > > few variations on "AddType application/x-pdf .pdf" etc > > No. > > > - Should .pdf be added to the php AddType directive? > > eg. "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .pdf > > No. > > > Basically, I'm confused. Anyone been there done that? > > Yes. > >