ANNOUNCE: ActiveState Perl Dev Kit 9.0 released

ActiveState is pleased to announce the release of Perl Dev Kit 9.0, the
essential tool suite for Perl developers that facilitates the creation
and deployment of professional Perl applications.

What's New in Perl Dev Kit 9.0?
===============================

* Perl 5.12 is supported by all tools in the PDK.

* PerlNET has support for 64-bit mode.

* The PDK now works with ActivePerl for HP-UX on PA-RISC. Note that
using ActivePerl for HP-UX requires an ActivePerl Business
Edition license.

In addition there are several bug fixes to get PDK tools to work better
under Windows 7 (graphical debugger can be run as a service, GUI applications
can be started via the Start menu shortcuts).

The full release notes are available here:

http://docs.activestate.com/pdk/9.0/release.html

For general information about the Perl Dev Kit please check out:

http://www.activestate.com/perl-dev-kit

Enjoy!


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Can anyone recommend a CPAN module for working with PDFdocuments?

Hi I'm going to be working with PDF files on a new project, and I'm
wondering if anyone can recommend a Perl module for working with PDF
documents. I'm using Perl 5.8.8 on a Windows platform and will
eventually be porting it to AIX Unix. I currently don't know much about
PDF.

I was looking at the PDF module on CPAN and I see it hasn't been updated
since 2000. And one of the open bugs seems to imply that it stopped
working with Acrobat version 5.x and I'll probably be accessing recently
created PDF documents from various sources. So it looks like I'll have
to choose from one of the other PDF modules.

I just need read only access to PDF documents to extract information
from them. Such as verifying it's actually a PDF document, # of pages
and searching for particular string values so that it can be indexed
before archived. Some of them may even be secured documents.

Any recommendation would be appreciated.

Thanks

Curtis


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Re: Can anyone recommend a CPAN module for working with PDF documents?

Curtis Leach schrieb am 19.08.2010 um 12:00 (-0700):
> Hi I'm going to be working with PDF files on a new project, and I'm
> wondering if anyone can recommend a Perl module for working with PDF
> documents. I'm using Perl 5.8.8 on a Windows platform and will
> eventually be porting it to AIX Unix. I currently don't know much
> about PDF.
>
> I was looking at the PDF module on CPAN and I see it hasn't been
> updated since 2000. And one of the open bugs seems to imply that it
> stopped working with Acrobat version 5.x and I'll probably be
> accessing recently created PDF documents from various sources. So it
> looks like I'll have to choose from one of the other PDF modules.
>
> I just need read only access to PDF documents to extract information
> from them. Such as verifying it's actually a PDF document, # of pages
> and searching for particular string values so that it can be indexed
> before archived. Some of them may even be secured documents.
>
> Any recommendation would be appreciated.

I've used XSL-FO and Prince XML, but they're not readily available from
Perl. Can't tell from proper experience, but I've seen a couple of
people recommend CAM::PDF, which seems to be Pure Perl, so it might
cover your cross-platform needs. I'd take a look at PDF::API2 as well.

http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/CAM-PDF

http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/PDF-API2

How can I do a full-text search of PDF files from Perl?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/139015/

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Michael Ludwig
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