CHANGEPDFSTRING(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the CHANGEPDFSTRING(1) manual page — it's giving User Contributed Perl Documentation — and it's all about changepdfstring.pl: Search and replace in PDF metadata. periodt. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

The whole command-line moment is:

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

Options:
  -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

Then flag-by-flag, bestie:

• -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 💅

Okay so here's the tea: this tool searches through a PDF file's metadata for instances of search-str and inserts replace-str. It does not change the actual PDF page layout — only interactive features, like forms and annotation. 🫶

Important caveat: to change page layout strings, use changepagestring.pl instead. This one is not for that, no cap. 🎀

The search-str can be a literal string, or it can be a Perl regular expression by wrapping it in regex(...). For example:

changepdfstring.pl in.pdf 'regex(CAM-PDF-(\d.\d+))' 'version=$1' out.pdf

That example is literal, character-for-character. 🔥

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• CAM::PDF
• changepagestring.pl

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

See CAM::PDF.

okay that's the whole page, bestie 💖 footer fairy says this one's source/version is perl v5.42.3 and the date is 2013-08-15. slay, bye 💅✨