Yes, I noticed that- saveas() does not return on success. PDF::API2 works well for this procedure on a few machines- but it fails on my i386. I tried CAM::PDF as you suggested.. I had to force install it via cpan. This is the example: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use CAM::PDF;


my $file_in = $ARGV[0];
my $prepend = $ARGV[1];
$prepend ||= 'out';



my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new($file_in);
my $count = $pdf->numPages;
undef $pdf;

for my $i ( 0 .. ( $count - 1 )){
   my $_i = ($i+1);

   my $file_out = sprintf "%s_page_%04d.pdf", $file_in, $_i;
   # make sure it's not there
   unlink $file_out;

   
   my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new($file_in);
   $pdf->extractPages($_i);
   $pdf->cleansave;

   $pdf->output($file_out);

   print STDERR "saved $file_out\n";

}


exit;

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It works. Slowly. You can see I am re-instancing a whole new pdf object for each one page I want. So, it the pdf has 110 pages, I have to re-instance 110 times, one for each page.

I can't figure out another way right now with CAM::PDF.

I really wish the documentation were a little bit better for these modules, PDF::API2 and CAM::PDF- and what's with the naming all the methods different? like numPages() and pages()- the interface is an inconsistency from hell- I don't care how much they worked on this- the messy api is unforgiveable.

In reply to Re^2: PDF::API2 importpage problem by leocharre
in thread PDF::API2 importpage problem by leocharre

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