[Perl-pdf-devel] Printing PDFs

[Ogden N. <on...@wa...>]

Hi,

Thanks to all those who helped develop PDF::Create. The features and 
speed are amazing.

I have created a PDF which is to be printed on a specific page - it is a 
form used like they do in high schools for multiple choice questions 
with the bubbles (ie. "ABCDE"). Basically, for a specific form, the PDF 
I create is supposed to pre-fill out some of the bubbles on the form.

I do this via creating a rectangle for a particular position:

  $page->rectangle(485, 756, 8,8);

So once the Perl script creates the PDF over the web and sends it to the 
client, the client then opens it up within Acrobat reader. However, the 
rectangles always print differently on different printers. I then have 
to go in and change the x and y positions for the rectangle.

I am wondering why this is. I thought the point of PDF was so it would 
"fit exactly to page"?

Any suggestions?

Thank you

Afra