Re: Differences in Windows versus Linux?

--- In [email protected], "Mr. Shawn H. Corey" 
<shawnhcorey@...> wrote:
>
> spinningwebz2002 wrote:
> > I have a small program that I wrote to just test soem of the 
features 
> > in pdf::api2 that, on windows XP with ActiveState perl and it 
creates 
> > a little pdf that uses the paragraph methods I mentioned in a 
> > different post to test adding new pages on the fly.
> > 
> > Now I just finished setting up a ubuntu server (linux variant) 
and 
> > installed all the apache/mysql/php and perl 5.8.x on it. I tested 
the 
> > same program and got an error I was missing Compress:Zlib - so 
> > installed it and ran the same program with no errors, did exactly 
as 
> > it does on the windows system (meaning it ran with no problem) 
and 
> > created a pdf, but the pdf ends up being smaller and is not a 
valid 
> > file. Here is the code I am using, is there any reason why it 
would 
> > work in windows but not in linux?
> 
> Do you have the same version in each machine?
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> 
> use PDF::API2;
> 
> printf "PDF::API2 %s\nPDF::API2::Content %s\n", 
$PDF::API2::VERSION, 
> $PDF::API2::Content::VERSION;
> 
> 
> -- 
> Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
>     Shawn
> 
> "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by 
> doing them."
>    Aristotle
>


I havent checked the versions yet, but they should be exactly the 
same since I copied the pdf::api2 from the windows machine directly 
to the linux one. I wonder, could it be I have a bad copy of the 
Compress lib? ActiveState perl for windows came with it as part of 
the install, but I had to use one I found on cpan (i believe) for the 
linux machine. Is there a specific version that is needed?

Also it was mentioned in another post that loading the fonts causes a 
delay in the program exectuion. Is pdf:api2 loading all the fonts or 
only ones I use? If the former, can I remove fonts from the listing?

Bill H