I had to do a similar thing with pdflib

With Text::Wrap and Text::ParseWords...
@lines = parse2array($doc,"\s");
$wrap = wrap(" ","", @lines), "\n";
@lines = parse2array($wrap,"\n");


This wrapped the text nicely in an array
so I could deal with the in-house pdf
formatting constructs.


here's the parse2array subroutine
sub parse2array { return quotewords($_[1],0,$_[0]); }

This is via the Cookbook 1.15 recipe
cheers...