1Text::PDF::Dict(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Text::PDF::Dict(3)
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6 Text::PDF::Dict - PDF Dictionaries and Streams. Inherits from
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10 There are various special instance variables which are used to look
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27 Outputs the contents of the dictionary to a PDF file. This is a
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