man Text::PDF::Filter () - Abstract superclass for PDF stream filters
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 .= $f->infilt("", 1);
DESCRIPTION
A Filter object contains state information for the process of outputting and inputting data through the filter. The precise state information stored is up to the particular filter and may range from nothing to whole objects created and destroyed.
Each filter stores different state information for input and output and thus may handle one input filtering process and one output filtering process at the same time.
METHODS
Text::PDF::Filter->new
Creates a new filter object with empty state information ready for processing data both input and output. Filters from output to input the data. Notice that CW$isend == 0 implies that there is more data to come and so following it CW$f may contain state information (usually due to the break-off point of CW$str not being tidy). Subsequent calls will incorporate this stored state information.
$isend == 1 implies that there is no more data to follow. The final state of CW$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. Filter stored data ready for output. Parallels CWinfilt.
NAME
Text::PDF::ASCII85Decode - Ascii85 filter for PDF streams. Inherits from Text::PDF::Filter
NAME
Text::PDF::RunLengthDecode - Run Length encoding filter for PDF streams. Inherits from Text::PDF::Filter
NAME
Text::PDF::ASCIIHexDecode - Ascii Hex encoding (very inefficient) for PDF streams. Inherits from Text::PDF::Filter