CHANGEPAGESTRING(1)

📦 version 1.60, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💖 NAME 💖

okay so this is CHANGEPAGESTRING(1), a User Contributed Perl Documentation page, and the main character is changepagestring.pl — the tool for Search and replace in all PDF pages. That's the whole name, bestie: search, replace, every page, slay. 💅✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here's the exact lineup, no cap:

changepagestring.pl [options] infile.pdf search-regex replace-str [outfile.pdf]

Options: we gotchu, one bullet each:

  • -o, --order — preserve the internal PDF ordering for output
  • -v, --verbose — print diagnostic messages
  • -h, --help — verbose help message
  • -V, --version — print CAM::PDF version

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So changepagestring.pl searches through all pages of a PDF file for instances of search-regex and inserts replace-str. It's literally going through all the pages, bestie — all of them, no skipping. 🦋

The regex should be a form that Perl understands. Perl girlies, you already know. 😌

Heads up, bestie: this does not change the PDF metadata like forms and annotation. If you need to change metadata, use changepdfstring.pl instead — different script, different mission. 🎀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • CAM::PDF
  • changepdfstring.pl

These are the friends of this page, and they're iconic. 👑

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

See CAM::PDF. That's the whole author situation, bestie. 🫶

mwah 💋 — this page is from perl v5.42.3, dated 2013-08-15, and it's the CHANGEPAGESTRING(1) manual. Bye bestie, go change some pages! 💖✨

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