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PDF::API2 & PDF::APIx

THIS PROJECT IS AS OF 30-11-2008 UNMAINTAINED

PDF::API2

There seem to be a growing plethora of Perl modules for creating and manipulating PDF files. PDF::API2 is 'The Next Generation' of Text::PDF::API which initially provided a nice API around the Text::PDF::* modules created by Martin Hosken.

Features

(which may be extended in the future)

• Works with more than one PDF file open at once

• It presents a object-oriented API to the user

• Modification of existing PDF Documents

• Import Pages from existing PDF Documents

• the 14 base PDF Core Fonts

• a subset of the base PDF CJK Fonts

• a subset of the Microsoft Webfonts (not embedded)

• Adobe-Type1 Fonts in both ascii and binary format (.pfa/pfb)

• TrueType fonts (.ttf)

• OpenType Fonts with TrueType Outlines (.ttf)

• OpenType Fonts with Postscript Outlines (.otf)

• 'Joint Photographics Experts Group' images (.jpeg)

• 'Portable Network Graphics' images (.png)

• 'Graphics Interchange Format' images (.gif)

• 'Tagged Image File Format' images (.tiff)

• 'Portable AnyMap' images (.pbm/pgm/ppm)

Requirements

(as an absolute minimum)

This module set requires you to have installed the following other software:

• Perl 5.8.x - for correct utf8 handling at language level (5.8.4+ recommended)

• Encode, Encode::* - for encoding/unicode handling

• Compress::Zlib - compression of pdf object streams

Download

The following files are available:

• PDF::API2 Modules recommended for production systems are here.

• PDF::APIx::* Modules with bleeding edge implementations recommended for perl-monks are here.

• Historic Versions may be retrieved here.

• PDF-API2 for Fun and Profit (APW2005 Presentation may be retrieved here.

Documents

It seams that a Wikipedia will evolve here.

References

• Perl - get my loveliest of languages here.

• Adobe & PDF - get my loveliest of printer-languages here.

• Sourceforge - providing hosting space here.

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