Re: Help needed to do minor edits to PDF file

Alfred Reibenschuh <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:10:38 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.pdfapi2
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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fernando.madruga wrote:
...
> I want to create a small perl script to perform some re-coloring of
> text and lines/boxes. Where can I find a starter sample that shows how
> to browse the objects of a PDF file and modify their attributes
> (stroke and fill colors in this case)?
...


sorry to disappoint you but text/lines/boxes are almost never
ever implemented as objects in PDF but in a postscript like
language and hence there exists no object-browser for that.


C

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fredo
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