REPLACEPDFOBJ(1)

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💅 REPLACEPDFOBJ(1) 💅

ok so this is a User Contributed Perl Documentation page, bestie — it lives in section 1 of the manual, and the whole thing is about replacepdfobj.pl. yes, the .pl is part of the name, we don't make the rules 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

replacepdfobj.pl — literally just copies a metadata object from one PDF into another. that's the whole gig. iconic, honestly 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

replacepdfobj.pl [options] mainfile.pdf objnum objfile.pdf objnum [outfile.pdf]\n";

the options, and what they do ⬇️

  • -f, --follow — copy the referenced objects too, not just the one object. follow the whole lil friend group 🦋
  • -o, --order — preserve the internal PDF ordering for the output. keep the vibes exactly as they were, no reshuffling 🔥
  • -v, --verbose — print diagnostic messages. she will tell you what she's doing, in detail 💬
  • -h, --help — a verbose help message. the full lore drop 📖
  • -V, --version — print the CAM::PDF version. proof of which era we're in ⭐

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea: you copy an object — and maybe its referenced children too, if you passed -f — from one PDF to another. that's it. that's the function.

ngl bestie, this is a rather low-level utility that will not be of interest to most users. it's giving "you'd know if you needed it" energy. if you're not already deep in the PDF guts, this is not your main character moment 💀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • CAM::PDF — go look at this one, it's the whole ecosystem 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

see CAM::PDF. that's where the credit lives, we're not re-typing it 🌈

and that's a wrap, bestie!! this page came from perl v5.42.3, dated 2013-08-15 — a little vintage moment, honestly nostalgic 🎀✨💅

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