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P5-pdf-api2

Jul 20, 2023

Facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files

There seem to be a growing plethora of Perl modules for creating and manipulating PDF files.

PDFAPI2 is ‘The Next Generation’ of TextPDFAPI which initially provided a nice API around the TextPDF* modules created by Martin Hosken.

Features

  • Works with more than one PDF file open at once
  • It presents a object-oriented API to the user
  • Supports the 14 base PDF Core Fonts
  • Supports TrueType fonts
  • Supports Adobe-Type1 Fonts pfb/pfa/afm
  • Supports native Embedding of bitmap images jpeg, ppm, png,gif
  • Supports modification of existing pdfs and import/cloning of pages
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