New Release: 1.08 Name DSLI Description Info ----------- ---- -------------------------------------------- ----- PDF bdpO Access information in a PDF file ANTRO The PDF library is a proposed library for access the information contained inside a PDF file. PDF stands for Portable Document Format and is a standard proposed by Adobe ( See http://www.adobe.com/ for more details ) . Install "as usual" with: perl Makefile.PL make make install Then, you can try the scripts in the example directory that tests if a file is a PDF ( not looking at the .pdf extension :-), the PDF version used to write them, their number of pages and the various Info ( Author, Creation date, etc. ). PREREQUISITES: A Perl distribution :-) NEWS: Added support for the iso latin1 chars in the Getinfo ( Thanks to Thomas Drillich for the patch ) For the people that have trouble with the "standard" install procedure under wintel platform, now is available a quick and dirty install.bat in the main directory AVAILABILITY: The library is available at and at all CPAN mirror Enjoy Antonio "Antro" Rosella