SETPDFBACKGROUND(1)

📦 version 1.60, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💅 SETPDFBACKGROUND(1) 💅

okay bestie, we're looking at setpdfbackground.pl from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's literally here to give your PDF page a solid background color. cute, useful, iconic.

🌸 NAME 🌸

setpdfbackground.pl — Apply a background color to a PDF page

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

 setpdfbackground.pl [options] file.pdf pagenum color [outfile]

 Options:
   -o --order          preserve the internal PDF ordering for output
   -v --verbose        print the internal representation of the PDF
   -h --help           verbose help message
   -V --version        print CAM::PDF version

The color is specified as 3 or 6 character hexadecimal RGB. For example, f00 and ff0000 both mean pure red while 999 and 999999 both mean medium gray. slay, hexadecimal realness 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This program alters a PDF document to add a solid background color behind the page contents. that's the whole vibe — background color, behind the stuff, done ✨

💀 CAVEATS 💀

okay so here's the messy part, and we need to talk about it: some PDF creation programs assume a white background and draw bogus white rectangles all over the screen that you usually cannot see. 😭

If your PDF has such rectangles, you can sometimes fix it, but it is a pain. highkey a pain.

The best recommendation is to recreate the original PDF using a smarter library, if possible. Alternatively, you can contact Clotho Advanced Media for a commercial solution to this problem. no cap, those are the options 🫶

🎀 CREDIT 🎀

This feature was originally requested by Brent Cowgill. ty bestie, iconic request 💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • CAM::PDF
  • rewritepdf.pl

👑 AUTHOR 👑

See CAM::PDF

made with perl v5.42.3, dated 2013-08-15, and yes this page is SETPDFBACKGROUND(1) — bye bestie 🫶💖

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