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standard Perl distribution since version 5.004. is Perl module gracefully handles all
tricky aspects of CGI programming—so that you don’t have to.
ere is much more to CGI programming than I cover in these few pages. e book enti-
tled CGI Programming with Perl, Second Edition (O’Reilly Media, 2000), by Scott Guelich
et al., is an excellent guide for writing CGI programs,
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as is Lincoln Stein’s own book en-
titled Ocial Guide to Programming with CGI.pm: e Standard for Building Web Scripts
(John Wiley & Sons, 1998).
ere are many URLs that provide content through the magic of CGI programming. Jef-
frey Friedl’s Japanese-English Dictionary Server
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and my own CJKV Character Set Server
‡
are examples that serve multilingual content. Check them out! In both cases, the Perl
programming language is being used to handle multilingual text.
Print Publishing
e last part of this chapter covers the topic of print publishing, with an obvious focus
on PDF and its advantages when used as the basis for a publishing workow. If you’re not
embracing PDF, you are strongly encouraged to do so. It solves many of problems that
have plagued publishing workows.
Looking back before the days of PDF, PostScript was the rst technology to revolutionize
the publishing industry, which gave birth to the desktop publishing industry. Much of the
conveniences that we enjoy today, and for ...