[pmwiki-users] Problem with Cookbook:GeneratePDF

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:26:37AM -0400, Ben Wilson wrote:
> I'm having a bit of a time getting GeneratePDF to behave.
> Specifically, when I attempt to create a PDF, HTMLDOC's help message
> is displayed instead. I got similar behavior when I tried to create a
> PDF from a GeneratePDF temp file, with the following caveat.

I suspect that HTMLDOC's help message is an indication that it's
being passed an option it doesn't understand.

> Apache is the webserver username, and when a temp file is created (in
> wiki.d), the permissions are 0600. As my own user, I lacked read
> access. This generated the same behavior as when trying to use
> GeneratePDF. However, when I changed the permissions to 0644, I was
> able to call HTMLDOC as myself and generate a PDF. Thus, I'm left with
> the opinion that HTMLDOC has encountered a permissions issue and just
> fails to report it.
> 
> No error message is found via any logs. Safe_Mode is off. I can't
> become Apache to test.

Any chance you could forward the configuration settings being 
used for GeneratePDF ?  What version of htmldoc?

Pm