Text::PDF::Filter(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Text::PDF::Filter(3)NAME
PDF::Filter - Abstract superclass for PDF stream filters
SYNOPSIS
$f = Text::PDF::Filter->new;
$str = $f->outfilt($str, 1);
print OUTFILE $str;
while (read(INFILE, $dat, 4096))
{ $store .= $f->infilt($dat, 0); }
$store .= $f->infilt("", 1);
DESCRIPTION
A Filter object contains state information for the process of
outputting and inputting data through the filter. The precise state
information stored is up to the particular filter and may range from
nothing to whole objects created and destroyed.
Each filter stores different state information for input and output and
thus may handle one input filtering process and one output filtering
process at the same time.
METHODS
Text::PDF::Filter->new
Creates a new filter object with empty state information ready for
processing data both input and output.
$dat = $f->infilt($str, $isend)
Filters from output to input the data. Notice that $isend == 0 implies
that there is more data to come and so following it $f may contain
state information (usually due to the break-off point of $str not being
tidy). Subsequent calls will incorporate this stored state information.
$isend == 1 implies that there is no more data to follow. The final
state of $f will be that the state information is empty. Error messages
are most likely to occur here since if there is required state
information to be stored following this data, then that would imply an
error in the data.
$str = $f->outfilt($dat, $isend)
Filter stored data ready for output. Parallels "infilt".
NAME
Text::PDF::ASCII85Decode - Ascii85 filter for PDF streams. Inherits
from Text::PDF::FilterNAME
Text::PDF::RunLengthDecode - Run Length encoding filter for PDF
streams. Inherits from Text::PDF::FilterNAME
Text::PDF::ASCIIHexDecode - Ascii Hex encoding (very inefficient) for
PDF streams. Inherits from Text::PDF::Filterperl v5.14.0 2011-06-17 Text::PDF::Filter(3)