PDF/Extract version 3.03
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PDF Extract is a group of methods that allow the user to quickly grab pages
as a new PDF document from a pre-existing multi page PDF document.

With PDF::Extract a new PDF document can be.
    assigned to a scalar variable with getPDFExtract.
    saved to disk with savePDFExtract.
    printed to STDOUT as a PDF web document with servePDFExtract.
    cached and served for a faster PDF web document service with fastServePDFExtract.
    
These four main methods can be called with or without arguments. The methods 
will not work unless they know the location of the original PDF document and the 
pages to extract. There are no default values.

As little as 3 lines of code can serve a dynamic PDF web document
use PDF::Extract;
$pdf = new PDF::Extract( PDFDoc =>"/docs/my.pdf", PDFPages =>"1-3 7"  ) ;
$pdf->servePDFExtract;

This module's home page is at http://www.lgmedia.com.au/PDF/Extract.asp
Forum for users and developers http://www.lgmedia.com.au/PDF/Forum <<historical only

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

There are no dependencies

HISTORY
version 3.03
Minor bug fix for Dario Santini

version 3.02
Was missing package meta data. could not be installed
version 3.01
Major upgrade. Now works with PDF 6 and 7

version 2.06
Stefano Capuzzimato corrected a problem with parsing spaces after endobj

version 2.05
Corrected a problem with the Makefile.pl

version 2.04
Changed line endings to suit Unixish opperating systems
Added PDFDebug

version 2.03
Internal version.
Added PDFSaveAs, PDFFilename
Gave PDFCache a default value of "."

version 2.02
Turned off warnings

version 2.01
Rationalised the set and get methods.
Simplified the variable names, made them smaller.
This version is not compatible with earlier versions.


version 1.03
Made compatable with Ghostscript output
Tested and working on Free BSD and Windows 2k

version 1.02
Fixed a blunder in the Synopsis of the documentation.
Should have read:-

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 use PDF::Extract;
 $pdf=new PDF::Extract;

version 1.01
Original beta version.



COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2003 Noel Sharrock

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.