Re: PDF::API2 suddenly broken

--- In [email protected], Alan Fry <ajf@...> wrote:
>
> My trusty PDF::API2 which has worked perfectly for years has suddenly  
> ceased to function. This minimal script:
> 
> $page = $pdf_out->page;
> $page->mediabox(595, 842);
> $page->gfx;
> #$xo = $pdf_out->importPageIntoForm($pdf_in, 1);
> #$gfx->formimage($xo, 0, 0, 1);
> 
> trips up at the line '$page->gfx' with the error 'Undefined subroutine  
> &Compress::Zlib::compress called at /Library/Perl/5.8.8/PDF/API2/ 
> Content.pm line 102.'
> 
> But 'Compress' is there and 'Zlib.pm' in that folder; and Zlib has a  
> subroutine named 'compress'. So what can be possibly be wrong here? "/ 
> Library/Perl/5.8.8/' is in @INC, so "/Library/Perl/5.8.8/Compress/"  
> should be found, should it not?
> 
> If the next line is included ($xo = etc.) the error message changes  
> to: 'Can't call method "infilt" on an undefined value at /Library/Perl/ 
> 5.8.8/PDF/API2/Util.pm line 667.'
> 
> The only thing that has changed in recent days is a security update  
> (Mac OSX 10.5.6 -- Intel MacPro) which I think was mostly to do with a  
> loophole in Safari -- and I doubt that had anything to do with  
> "Compress::Zlib".
> 
> I would be most grateful for any suggestions what to do next,
> 
> Alan Fry
>

Well, something has changed. Can you post the entire script? Perhaps
the script setup needs to change.