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PDF::API2::HOWTO(3pm)          User Contributed Perl Documentation          PDF::API2::HOWTO(3pm)



NAME
       PDF::API2::HOWTO - A basic set of guidelines to use PDF::API2.

THEORY
       Coordinates and Units

       Transformations

       Colors

       R-G-B

       C-M-Y-K

       H-S-V

THE BASIC DOCUMENT
       A Hello World.

           $pdf = PDF::API2->new;
           #
           $fnt = $pdf->corefont('Helvetica-Bold');
           #
           $page = $pdf->page;
           $page->mediabox('A4');
           #
           $gfx = $page->gfx;
           $gfx->textlabel(200,700,$fnt,20,'Hello World !');
           #
           $pdf->saveas('/this/new/document.pdf');
           $pdf->end;

FONTS AND TYPESETTING
INTEROPERABLILITIES
       Adobe Reader & Acrobat (Windows)

       The Acrobat/Adobe Reader will open and print files created with PDF::API2, but sometimes
       Acrobat (Full Product) will be unable to edit/update them.

       Adobe Reader (Linux)

       Since the MS Core Fonts may not be available via X11, those corefonts may either
       look/print odd or may be entirely missing (dependent on installation).

       Macromedia Freehand (Windows)

       Any version of Freehand is unable to open files either created or updated by PDF::API2.
       Redestilled files do work, but embedded fonts are missing, which is probably bug in
       Freehand's pdf engine.

       Ghostscript

       Versions before 7.03 had problems reading PDF::API2 created pdfs.

       PDF::API2 versions prior to 0.30_7x embedded Type1 Fonts not digestible by gs.

       Redmon / FreePDF (Windows)

       Since these are based on ghostscript, they can be used to redistill pdfs from and to
       PDF::API2.

       Xpdf

       Xpdf and tools need to be compiled with both freetype2 and libT1.

       pdftops produces problematic ps-files if the pdf-file created via PDF::API2 contains
       embedded CFF (aka. Opentype) fonts.

       pdftk

       pdftk is a nice tool to pre/post-process pdf-files.

       Version 0.91 does not support big-endian unicode metadata as PDF::API2 does use as
       default.

       Jaws PDF

       Some versions of this software (5D PDF Creator) create pdfs not consumable by PDF::API2
       (if you just need a pdf-printer driver use FreePDF).

       Omnipage

       PDF::API2 versions prior to 0.40_17 had a bug that screws up omnipages unfortunate image
       name-keys and lzw-encoded page descriptions.

       Open Office

       PDF::API2 versions prior to 0.40_xx had a bug that screws up colorspaces of indexed images
       during import/save.

CHANGES
           $Log: HOWTO.pod,v $
           Revision 2.0  2005/11/16 02:16:00  areibens
           revision workaround for SF cvs import not to screw up CPAN

           Revision 1.2  2005/11/16 01:27:48  areibens
           genesis2

           Revision 1.1  2005/11/16 01:19:24  areibens
           genesis

           Revision 1.6  2005/03/14 22:01:05  fredo
           upd 2005

           Revision 1.5  2004/06/07 19:44:12  fredo
           cleaned out cr+lf for lf

           Revision 1.4  2004/02/22 23:45:25  fredo
           added pdftk tool comment

           Revision 1.3  2004/02/19 00:37:55  fredo
           added interoperability section

           Revision 1.2  2004/02/13 10:56:31  fredo
           added hello world example

           Revision 1.1  2003/12/08 22:42:19  Administrator
           rudimentary skeleton



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