I know the feeling :/ Generally speaking, PDF::API2 is powerful but old and of poor quality, while CAM::PDF is clean but slow and lacks features. Specifically, CAM::PDF eagerly loads the whole file in memory before anything else, while more advanced libraries like PDF::API2 take a lazy and more efficient approach.

The truth is, the PDF specification is 1300+ pages and growing. I don't think any of these packages is ever going to implement it fully and correctly, while still providing additional abstraction layers and tests (workload x2) and a comprehensive documentation (workload x3).

PDF::API2 is on the right path as far as code structure goes, but has no tests (assume it's broken ;-) and its meager documentation requires that you know the PDF specs already. On the other hand, the CAM::API2 code is of much higher quality (tests, docs) while less advanced, and the library as a whole is begging for a redesign (106 methods in the one public class, yuck). Volunteers, anyone? :-)

In reply to Re^3: PDF::API2 importpage problem by waba
in thread PDF::API2 importpage problem by leocharre

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