NAME

PDF::String - PDF String type objects and superclass for simple objects that are basically stringlike (Number, Name, etc.)

METHODS

PDF::String->new($parent, $string)

Creates a new string object (not a full object yet) from a given string. The string is parsed according to input criteria with escaping working. Since there is no clash between an escaped and final form of a character in a string, strings can be passed in already converted.

$s->convert($str)

Returns $str converted as per criteria for input from PDF file

$s->val

Returns the value of this string (the string itself).

$s->outobjdeep

Outputs the string in PDF format, complete with necessary conversions