Levon,

  You might try using the binmode function on your filehandle:

    open FH, ">$binObjId.pdf";
    binmode FH;
    print FH, $contents;
    close FH;


Steve

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:26:52AM -0400, Levon Barker wrote:
> Hello List!
> 
> Have a quick question that I am sure someone knows the answer to. I
> switching from handling long raw data in Oracle to only storing a pointer to
> the file on the file system. I am dealing mostly with PDFs.
> 
> The process seems/ed pretty easy: select the contents of the longvar column
> into a perl variable and then save it to the file system.
> So I do something like this:
> 
> while ($sth->fetch()) {
>         open FH, ">$binObjId.pdf";
>         print FH, $contents;
>         close FH;
> }
> 
> That almost works.
> 
> After this runs on a coulple of files, I try to open one, and the PDF
> reports that the file is damaged and also none of the jpgs that were
> embedded in the PDF show up. Acrobat tells me that there is insufficient
> data to display the image.
> 
> So I am guessing that 'print FH, $contents' is a bad way to get the pdf to
> the file system.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Levon Barker
> 
> 
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