SETPDFPAGE(1)

🎀 SETPDFPAGE(1) 🎀

okay so bestie, this page is from the User Contributed Perl Documentation 💅, and it’s all about setpdfpage.pl. it’s giving “swap a page of PDF layout” energy, and honestly? iconic.

💖 NAME 💖

setpdfpage.pl — Replace a page of PDF layout. periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here’s the exact call, bestie — don’t rearrange the lineup:

        setpdfpage.pl [options] infile.pdf page.txt pagenum [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

🫶 options, one by one 🫶

• -o, --order — preserve the internal PDF ordering for output. yes, keep the internal PDF order intact 🔥
• -v, --verbose — print diagnostic messages. she’s chatty and we love that 💬
• -h, --help — verbose help message. need the full scoop? this is your girl 🎀
• -V, --version — print CAM::PDF version. show me the version, no cap 👑

also the args are infile.pdf, page.txt, pagenum, and the optional outfile.pdf — exactly like the synopsis above says 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Assign the specified ASCII file to be the page content for the PDF page indicated. the existing page layout is discarded. 😭

heads up, bestie: the existing page layout is discarded — like, gone gone. no cap.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• CAM::PDF
• getpdfpage.pl

peek at those too, iykyk 👀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

See CAM::PDF.

that’s the author tea — straight from the original, bestie 💜

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💖 xoxo, your fav unix bestie — source/version is perl v5.42.3, and the date on this page is 2013-08-15. periodt. 💖