CAM::P...::Text(3pm)

💖 CAM::PDF::Renderer::Text 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation (iykyk, that's the manual name, she's fancy like that) and we're about to make an ASCII renderer make sense. slay. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

CAM::PDF::Renderer::Text — Render an ASCII image of a PDF page 🦋

Like, it turns a PDF page into little text-art. it's giving pixel art but make it typography.

📜 LICENSE 📜

See CAM::PDF. periodt. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use CAM::PDF;
my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new($filename);
my $contentTree = $pdf->getPageContentTree(4);
$contentTree->render("CAM::PDF::Renderer::Text");

that's the whole vibe right there. no cap. ✨

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

So this class? It prints to STDOUT the coordinates of every single node of a page layout. Every. Single. One. 🔥

It was written for two reasons and honestly both are iconic:

• debugging 🐛
• as a minimal example of a renderer — like the "hello world" of renderers, lowkey

🌈 GLOBALS 🌈

Two globals, two icons, and they control everything:

• $CAM::PDF::Renderer::Text::xdensity and $CAM::PDF::Renderer::Text::ydensity — these two besties define the scale of the ASCII graphical output device. That's literally their whole job.

And the default for both? 6.0. Both of them. fr fr. 🌟

🧚 FUNCTIONS 🧚

• $pkg->new() — calls the superclass constructor, and initializes the ASCII PDF page. main character energy: it sets the whole thing up before anyone else gets to do anything. 💖
• $self->renderText($string) — prints the characters of the screen to our virtual ASCII framebuffer. yes, we have a framebuffer and yes it's made of vibes and text. 🫶
• $self->toString() — serializes the framebuffer into a single string that can be easily printed. one string. clean. ate. 💅

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

See CAM::PDF 😌

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okay that's the whole page, bestie. 🎀 this was perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-12-08, and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual. ty for coming to my ted talk, go render something cute. 💖✨🌸