Re: Re: Help needed to do minor edits to PDF file

Alfred Reibenschuh <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:58:24 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.pdfapi2
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Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote:
> fernando.madruga wrote:
>> Any pointers on how to access that raw PS data?
> 
> When you open a file with PDF::API2, it does not un-filter (uncompress or decrypt) its content.  You would have to write a routine to do that.
> 
> After that, would you have to find or write a parser to process the raw content.
> 
> Once that is done, things should get easy :)

if you really want to dive in:

PDF::API2::Utils contains an unfilter method

the pagedata is located in $content_obj->{" stream"}

you should get a copy of the pdf-spec from:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html


C
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fredo
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