Image::...WritePDF(3)

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💖 Image::...WritePDF(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, we're talking about Image::...WritePDF(3) and honestly? it's giving quiet luxury, it's a lil file that does one job and does it flawlessly ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

Image::ExifTool::WritePDF.pl — write PDF meta information 💅

like, the whole point of her. writing metadata into PDFs. that's it, that's the girl. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

These routines are autoloaded by Image::ExifTool::PDF.

not me showing up to the function call uninvited 😭 these routines are autoloaded by Image::ExifTool::PDF, so you never have to use them or require them yourself. they just appear when needed. main character energy fr fr 👑

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so basically? this file contains routines to write PDF metadata. that's the vibe. that's the assignment. it's not out here doing seventeen other things, it knows its lane and it slays in it 🫶

⭐ NOTES ⭐

okay this part is actually important so listen up bestie 🎧

When writing a PDF, exiftool does not modify the existing data.

read that again. she does NOT touch your existing bytes. no cap. your original data stays exactly where it was, untouched, unbothered, moisturized 💆

instead? the PDF file is appended with an incremental update. which is lowkey iconic because it means you can easily remove it and revert the file back — all you gotta do is use ExifTool to delete the special "PDF-update" pseudo group. boom, undone. no harm, no foul, no forensic trauma 💀✨

so yeah, writing is reversible. that's the whole point. it's giving "no take-backs? actually yes take-backs" 🙈

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com) 🫶

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

🍓 REFERENCES 🍓

the sacred texts 📜 go read them iykyk

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

the besties of this page, the squad, the entourage 💖 go say hi

and that's the whole page, you ate that 🎀

perl v5.42.1 · 2026-03-31 — yeah she's timestamped and versioned, iconic behavior, periodt 💅✨

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