PDF::Tk - Perl integration for the pdf toolkit

NAME

PDF::Tk - Perl integration for the pdf toolkit (pdftk)

SYNOPSIS

  use PDF::Tk;
  my $doc=PDF::Tk->new(file=>["/tmp/my1.pdf","/tmp/my2.pdf"]);
  my @parts=$doc->pages();

DESCRIPTION

This module is a interface for the command line pdftk command.

METHODS

new

The constructor for the pdftk module. Takes a hash of arguments

    document - a scalar containing a PDF document,
    file - either a PDF filename or a arrayref of filenames.
    pdftf - path to the pdftk binary, defaults to "/usr/bin/pdftk"

note that document and file are mutually exclusive!

call_pdftk

Calls up pdftk command, takes input, output and pdftk operation as arguments input and output can either be files or scalar refs. input can also be an array ref of files

pages

returns an array in list context, or arrayref, containing the content of all pages in the document.

page

Takes a page as an argument, and returns the contents of that page.

docinfo

If you provide an argument, it will return that value (lower cased), or else it will return a hash of values; Common values are creator ,title, producer,author, moddate, creationdate, pdfid0, pdfid1, numberofpages.

document

Accessor for the actual document.

AUTHOR

Marcus Ramberg, <marcus@mediaflex.no>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.