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[Raku PDF Project] / PDF::Content

PDF::Content

This Raku module is a library of roles, modules and classes for basic PDF content creation and rendering, including text, images, basic colors, core fonts, marked content and general graphics.

It is centered around implementing a graphics state machine and provding support for the operators and graphics variables as listed in the PDF::API6 Graphics Documentation.

Key classes and modules:

• PDF::Content manages content stream graphics and related resources

• PDF::Content::Canvas manages a canvas that contains a content stream

• PDF::Content::Ops implements a content stream as a graphics state machine

• PDF::Content::Image loading and manipulation of PDF images

• PDF::Content::Font::CoreFont provides simple support for core fonts

• PDF::Content::Text::Box a utility class for creating boxed text content for output by print() or say()

• PDF::Content::Text::Style text styling class for text boxes.

• PDF::Content::Color A module of color construction functions

• PDF::Content::Tag Tagged content detection and construction

• PDF::Content::PageTree PDF Page-tree related methods

See Also

• PDF::Font::Loader provides the ability to load and embed Type-1 and True-Type fonts.

• PDF::Lite minimal creation and manipulation of PDF documents. Built directly from PDF and this module.

• PDF::API6 PDF manipulation library. Uses this module. Adds handling of outlines, options annotations, separations and device-n colors

• PDF::Tags DOM-like creation and reading of tagged PDF structure (under construction)