Re: Extracting Font/Transparency info from PDF

Did you read whatever specs are available for .pdfs? Have you checked any source of help at Adobe or other producers of .pdf-software?

Have you read the docs in the multitudinous lode of modules related to .pdf at cpan.org?

Lazy is reputed to be a virtue for Perlistae, but not this kind of lazy.

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Re^2: Extracting Font/Transparency info from PDF by pdxperl (Sexton) on Oct 02, 2013 at 18:17 UTC
I have searched through CPAN and I didn't see anything that specifically mentioned transparencies, embedded / outlined fonts, image characteristics for PDFs. Lots of stuff for creating, editing, extracting basic metadata, but nothing at the level I'm looking for ( at least, not identified specifically). Adobe of course has solutions, but they're GUI-based and part of an overall design suite. I'm looking for a way to do some basic automation. And no, I didn't read through the PDF specs! That is quite vast and complex. I thought maybe a common sense approach, as opposed to reinventing the wheel, might be to see if someone else has solved a similar problem.	[reply]

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Re^2: Extracting Font/Transparency info from PDF
by pdxperl (Sexton) on Oct 02, 2013 at 18:17 UTC

I have searched through CPAN and I didn't see anything that specifically mentioned transparencies, embedded / outlined fonts, image characteristics for PDFs. Lots of stuff for creating, editing, extracting basic metadata, but nothing at the level I'm looking for ( at least, not identified specifically). Adobe of course has solutions, but they're GUI-based and part of an overall design suite. I'm looking for a way to do some basic automation. And no, I didn't read through the PDF specs! That is quite vast and complex. I thought maybe a common sense approach, as opposed to reinventing the wheel, might be to see if someone else has solved a similar problem.

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