CHANGEPDFSTRING(1p)

💖 CHANGEPDFSTRING(1p) 💖

okay bestie, so this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, and it's about changepdfstring — the little icon that goes digging through your PDF's metadata and swaps strings out. no cap. let's get into it. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

changepdfstring — search and replace, but make it PDF metadata 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

and here's the options menu, periodt:

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

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so what it does is: it searches all up through a PDF file's metadata for every instance of search-str and then inserts replace-str in its place. slay. 🫶

but lowkey important: this does NOT touch the actual PDF page layout. it only messes with the interactive features — think forms and annotation. the visual page stays exactly as it was, iykyk.

if changing page layout strings is what you actually want, then bestie you're on the wrong manpage — go use changepagestring instead. 💅

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🌈 regex o'clock 🌈

your search-str can just be a literal string, plain and simple. or — and this is the fun part — you can wrap it in regex(...) and it becomes a full-on Perl regular expression. main character energy:

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

look at that capture group eating. obsessed. 🔥

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• CAM::PDF
• changepagestring

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🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

See CAM::PDF 🍓

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and that's the whole vibe bestie, go forth and replace those strings 💖✨

this lil cutie is part of perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-12-08, and it's filed under the manual page name CHANGEPDFSTRING(1p) 🎀🦋⭐