Text::PDF::Utils(3pm)

✨ Text::PDF::Utils ✨

okay bestie, so this is Text::PDF::Utils, a little Perl module from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection 🫶 it lives in the Text::PDF family and it's literally just a pile of helper functions for the PDF library. no cap.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

A set of utility functions to save the fingers of the PDF library users! 🎀

that's it, that's the whole pitch. it's giving quality of life. you don't have to type out all the long constructor calls yourself, you just scream a tiny function name and boom 💅

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🌸 FUNCTIONS 🌸

🦋 PDFBool

Creates a Bool via Text::PDF::Bool->new ✨

🦋 PDFArray

Creates an array via Text::PDF::Array->new ✨

🦋 PDFDict

Creates a dict via Text::PDF::Dict->new ✨

🦋 PDFName

Creates a name via Text::PDF::Name->new ✨

🦋 PDFNum

Creates a number via Text::PDF::Number->new ✨

🦋 PDFStr

Creates a string via Text::PDF::String->new ✨

🧚 asPDFBool

Returns a boolean value in PDF output form 👑

🧚 asPDFStr

Returns a string in PDF output form (including () or <>) 💖

🧚 asPDFName

Returns a Name in PDF Output form (including /) 💖

not me capitalising "Output" there, that's literally what the original says, we respect the original here fr fr 🙈

🧚 asPDFNum

Returns a number in PDF output form 🌈

🍓 unpacku($str)

Returns a list of unicode values for the given UTF8 string 🫶

like, you hand it a <italic>$str</italic> and it hands you back a whole list of unicode values. obsessed. it's giving decoding main character energy 💜

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and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 💅

this gorgeous little doc is from perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-10-22, and it's the Text::PDF::Utils(3pm) page — periodt. 🎀✨