[cl-pdf-devel] [Sbcl-help] strange error in most recent CL-PDF with more recent SBCL?

[A.J. Rossini]

James -

That does the trick, THANKS!

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:48 AM, James Fleming<lisp at electronic-quill.net> wrote:
>> PDF:WRITE-DOCUMENT function
>> seems to be unable to take a string or pathname, but throws the
>> following error (which I tried to resolve by OPENing the proper handle
>> and passing it):
>>
>> #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file /tmp/ex1.pdf" {BEC30D1}> is not a binary
>> output stream.
>
>
> Tony,
>
> I've recently run into this myself.
> After a bit of experimentation, I've had consistent success with passing
> it a filehandle opened for writing with :element-type :default, like so:
>
> (with-open-file (outstream #p"/path/to/outfile.pdf"
>                             :direction :output
>                             :if-exists :rename
>                             :element-type :default)
>  (pdf:with-document
>    <PDF stuff goes here...>
>    (pdf:write-document outstream)))
>
> I first tried passing it a filehandle opened with :element-type
> '(unsigned-byte 8) but it them complained that it didn't have a stream of
> type character. I've no idea why you have to explicitly tell it to use the
> default element-type, but also don't have the time to dig around and
> figure that out.
>
>
> HTH,
> James
>
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-tony

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