NAME

PDF - Library for PDF manipulation in Perl

SYNOPSIS

use PDF;
$pdf=new ;
$pdf=new(filename);
$result=$pdf->TargetFile( filename );

Description

The main purpose of the PDF library is to provide classes and functions that allow to read and manipulate PDF files with perl. PDF stands for Portable Document Format and is a format proposed by Adobe. For more details abour PDF, refer to:

http://www.adobe.com/

The library is at is very beginning of development. The main idea is to provide some "basic" modules for access the information contained in a PDF file. Even if at this moment only the constructor is available, the two little scripts provided with the library ( is_pdf and pdf_version ) show that it is usable.

The first script test a list of files in order divide the PDF file from the non PDF using the info provided by the files themselves. It doesn't use the .pdf extension, it uses the information contained in the file.

The second returns the PDF level used for writing a file.

Constructor

new ( [ filename ] )

This is the constructor of a new PDF object. If the filename is missing, it returns an empty PDF descriptor ( can be filled with $pdf->TargetFile). Otherwise, It acts as the TargetFile method.

Methods

The only available method ( at the moment ) is :

TargetFile ( filename )

This method links the filename to the pdf descriptor and check the header.

Variables

There are 2 variables that can be accessed:

$PDF::Version

Contain the version of the library installed

Verbose

This variable is false by default. Change the value if you want more verbose output messages from library

Copyright

Copyright 1998, Antonio Rosella antro@technologist.com

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Availability

The latest version of this library is likely to be available from:

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/4794/