NAME

rewritepdf.pl - Rebuild a PDF file

SYNOPSIS

 rewritepdf.pl [options] infile.pdf [outfile.pdf]\n";

 Options:
   -c --cleanse        seek and destroy unreferenced metadata in the document
   -C --clearannots    remove all annotations (including forms)
   -d --decode         uncompress any encoded elements
   -f --filter=name    compress all elements with this filter (can use more than once)
   -X --decrypt        remove encryption from the document
   -o --order          preserve the internal PDF ordering for output
   -v --verbose        print diagnostic messages
   -h --help           verbose help message
   -V --version        print CAM::PDF version

   -p --pass opass upass              set a new owner and user password
   -P --prefs print modify copy add   set boolean permissions for the document

DESCRIPTION

Read and write a PDF document, and possibly modify it along the way.

The --cleanse option could possibly break some PDFs which use undocumented or poorly documented PDF features. Namely, some PDFs implicitly store their FontDescriptor objects just before their Font objects, without explicitly referring to the former. Cleansing removes the former, causing Acrobat Reader to choke.

We recommend that you avoid the --decode and --filter options, as we're not sure they work right any longer.

SEE ALSO

CAM::PDF

AUTHOR

Clotho Advanced Media Inc., cpan@clotho.com