RE: Usage Tutorial

the Shelter <the_shelter-/[email protected]> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:57:35 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.pdfapi2
Message-ID <[email protected]>
There used to be an 
(infamous) wiki ... maybe I have to cram through the
list and find the link... from what I remember at some
point the main discussion was about a logo for the
Wiki- last time I checked it (1,5+ years ago) it had
only little content ....

Cheers

--- Mark Fowle <mfowle-uVnJ9s0aRV+BUy7/[email protected]> wrote:

> Well it works for me.
> 
>  
> 
> I haven't read the PDF spec in great detail lately
> but I don't think
> that it has changed much in the last 7 years, at
> least not for standard
> content; forms, multimedia etc. not withstanding.
> 
>  
> 
> For the most part PDF is meant to be a one-way
> street from content to
> layout. I tend to assume that reading a PDF has a
> high chance of giving
> a false negative - not finding a token you are
> looking for does not mean
> it is not there. In some PDF's the text is put in a
> letter or word at a
> time, meaning that the display order may not be
> apparent before it is
> rendered.
> 
>  
> 
> Mark Fowle
> 
> mark-pBzqNAv5FctWk0Htik3J/[email protected]
> 
> www.accommos.com <http://www.accommos.com/> 
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Jeffrey
> Ratcliffe
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:07 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [perl-text-pdf-modules] Usage Tutorial
> 
>  
> 
> Last release 14 Feb 2000?
> 
> On 13/03/2008, Mark Fowle <mfowle-uVnJ9s0aRV+BUy7/[email protected]
> <mailto:mfowle-uVnJ9s0aRV+BUy7/[email protected]> > wrote:
> 
> PDF::API2 is more for creating PDFs, you might want
> to look at
> http://search.cpan.org/~antro/PDF-111/PDF.pm
> <http://search.cpan.org/%7Eantro/PDF-111/PDF.pm> 
> 
>  
> 
> Mark Fowle
> 
> mark-pBzqNAv5FctWk0Htik3J/[email protected] <mailto:mark-pBzqNAv5FctWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> 
> 
> www.accommos.com <http://www.accommos.com/> 
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: [email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>
> [mailto:[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]> ] On
> Behalf Of
> nalinvilochan
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:56 PM
> To: [email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]> 
> Subject: [perl-text-pdf-modules] Usage Tutorial
> 
>  
> 
> Hi,
> I want to read a PDF file and search some content in
> it. is there
> any tutorial for this. How to use PDF::API2 .
> 
> THx
> Nalin
> 
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> 
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> 
> 



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