Text::PDF::Dict(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      Text::PDF::Dict(3pm)

NAME

       Text::PDF::Dict - PDF Dictionaries and Streams. Inherits from PDF::Objind

INSTANCE VARIABLES

       There are various special instance variables which are used to look after, particularly, streams. Each begins with a space:

       stream Holds the stream contents for output

       streamfile
	      Holds the stream contents in an external file rather than in memory. This is not the same as a PDF file stream. The data is stored
	      in its unfiltered form.

       streamloc
	      If both ' stream' and ' streamfile' are empty, this indicates where in the source PDF the stream starts.

METHODS

       $d->outobjdeep($fh)

       Outputs the contents of the dictionary to a PDF file. This is a recursive call.

       It also outputs a stream if the dictionary has a stream element. If this occurs then this method will calculate the length of the stream
       and insert it into the stream's dictionary.

       $d->read_stream($force_memory)

       Reads in a stream from a PDF file. If the stream is greater than "PDF::Dict::mincache" (defaults to 32768) bytes to be stored, then the
       default action is to create a file for it somewhere and to use that file as a data cache. If $force_memory is set, this caching will not
       occur and the data will all be stored in the $self->{' stream'} variable.

       $d->val

       Returns the dictionary, which is itself.

       $d->copy($inpdf, $res, $unique, $outpdf, %opts)

       Copies an object. See Text::PDF::Objind::Copy() for details

perl v5.8.8							    2006-09-09						      Text::PDF::Dict(3pm)