Create or modify PDF with a Perl script.
Many web sites use Perl for creating dynamic content. You can also use Perl to script Acrobat on your local machine [Hack #95] . Given the great number of packages that extend Perl, it is no surprise that packages exist for creating and manipulating PDF. Let's take a look.
Perl Pdf Create. 11/6/2019 Sep 21, 2007 PDF Processing with Perl. Adobe’s PDF has become a standard for text documents. Most office products can export their.
6.14.1 Install Perl and the PDF::API2 Package on Windows
Create PDF files. Ppm install PDF-Create. + How to install PDF-Create. Download and install ActivePerl. Open Command Prompt. Type ppm install PDF-Create. To create a file in Perl, you also use open. The difference is that you need to prefix the file name with a character to make Perl open the file for writing. Any existing file with the name you supply to open will be overwritten, unless you specify instead, which opens a file for appending. How to set the font-color property when creating PDF through the Perl module PDF::Create? The below is the code snippet I am using. How can I set the font color property here? Use warnings; use st. Adobe’s PDF has become a standard for text documents. Perl.com and the authors make no representations with respect to the accuracy.
[Hack #95] explains how to install Perl on Windows. After installing Perl, use the Perl Package Manager to easily install the PDF::API2 package.
Launch the Programmer's Package Manager (PPM, formerly called Perl Package Manager) by selecting Start Programs ActiveState ActivePerl 5.8 Perl Package Manager. A command prompt will open with its ppm> prompt awaiting your command. Type help to see a list of commands. Type search pdf to see a list of available packages. To install PDF::API2, enter installpdf-api2. The Package Manager will fetch the package from the Internet and install it on your machine. The entire session looks something like this:
The PDF::API2 package is used widely to create and manipulate PDF. You can download documentation and examples from http://pdfapi2.sourceforge.net/dl/.
6.14.2 Hello World in Perl
This Perl script creates a PDF named HelloWorld.pdf, adds a page, and then adds text to that page. It gives you an idea of how easily you can create PDF. Figure 6-16 shows the PDF document created by this script.
Figure 6-16. Creating PDF content using Perl
6.14.3 Discover Perl Packages with CPAN
CPAN (http://www.cpan.org) is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, where you will find 'All Things Perl.' Visit http://search.cpan.org to discover several other PDF packages. Drill down to find details, documentation, and downloads. For example, PDF::Extract (http://search.cpan.org/~nsharrock/) creates a new PDF from the pages of a larger, input PDF.
The perldoc program gives you access to all the documentation that comes with Perl. You can get more documentation, tutorials and community support online at https://www.perl.org/.
If you're new to Perl, you should start by running perldoc perlintro, which is a general intro for beginners and provides some background to help you navigate the rest of Perl's extensive documentation. Run perldoc perldoc to learn more things you can do with perldoc.
For ease of access, the Perl manual has been split up into several sections.
Full perl(1) documentation: perl
#Reference Lists
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#About Perl
Perl officially stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language, except when it doesn't.
Perl was originally a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It quickly became a good language for many system management tasks. Over the years, Perl has grown into a general-purpose programming language. It's widely used for everything from quick 'one-liners' to full-scale application development.
The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal). It combines (in the author's opinion, anyway) some of the best features of sed, awk, and sh, making it familiar and easy to use for Unix users to whip up quick solutions to annoying problems. Its general-purpose programming facilities support procedural, functional, and object-oriented programming paradigms, making Perl a comfortable language for the long haul on major projects, whatever your bent.
Perl Pdf::create
Perl's roots in text processing haven't been forgotten over the years. It still boasts some of the most powerful regular expressions to be found anywhere, and its support for Unicode text is world-class. It handles all kinds of structured text, too, through an extensive collection of extensions. Those libraries, collected in the CPAN, provide ready-made solutions to an astounding array of problems. When they haven't set the standard themselves, they steal from the best -- just like Perl itself.
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