GETPDFPAGEOBJECT(1)

📦 version 1.60, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💖 GETPDFPAGEOBJECT(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to getpdfpageobject.pl, a lil Perl script from the CAM::PDF universe — this is the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the manual, and this page? it's the one that hands you your PDF's page metadata. iconic behavior honestly 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

getpdfpageobject.pl — prints the PDF page metadata. that's it, that's the whole job. lowkey perfect. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

getpdfpageobject.pl [options] infile.pdf pagenum

Options:
  -d --decode         uncompress any elements
  -c --content        show the page Contents field only
  -v --verbose        print diagnostic messages
  -h --help           verbose help message
  -V --version        print CAM::PDF version

so yeah, you feed it an infile.pdf and a pagenum — like, which page you're curious about — plus whatever options you're feeling. slay. 🌈

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • -d, --decode — uncompress any elements. the stuff hiding in compression? not hiding anymore bestie 🫶
  • -c, --content — show the page Contents field only. laser focus, no distractions, main character energy ⭐
  • -v, --verbose — print diagnostic messages. she talks a lot, but it's cute 💬
  • -h, --help — verbose help message. the full rundown ✨
  • -V, --version — print CAM::PDF version. gotta know which era of the library you're living in 👑

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so what does it actually do, you ask? it retrieves the page metadata from the PDF. that's the whole vibe check 📄✨

if --verbose is specified, the memory representation is dumped to STDOUT. like, the whole internal picture, just… handed to you. no cap 🫠

otherwise? the program silently returns success, or emits a failure message to STDERR. quiet queen behavior — she either says nothing and it's fine, or she's telling you something went wrong on STDERR. either way, you'll know. 💀

ngl, the quiet path is genuinely quiet — success = silence, so don't sit there waiting for a lil confirmation message. 🙈

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

  • CAM::PDF
  • getpdfpage.pl
  • setpdfpage.pl

the whole friend group fr fr 🫶💖

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

See CAM::PDF. yeah — the author info lives over there, go peek 👀

okay that's the page!! ily, go read some PDF metadata 💕

— this lil gem comes from perl v5.42.3, dated 2013-08-15, filed under GETPDFPAGEOBJECT(1) in the CAM::PDF docs — mwah, bye bestie! 🧚✨

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