PDF::API2::Basic::PDF::String - PDF String type objects and superclass

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PDF::API2::Basic::PDF::String - PDF String type objects and superclass for simple objects that are basically stringlike (Number, Name, etc.)

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PDF::API2::Basic::PDF::String->from_pdf($string)

Creates a new string object (not a full object yet) from a given string. The string is parsed according to input criteria with escaping working.

PDF::API2::Basic::PDF::String->new($string)

Creates a new string object (not a full object yet) from a given string. The string is parsed according to input criteria with escaping working.

$s->convert($str)

Returns $str converted as per criteria for input from PDF file

$s->val

Returns the value of this string (the string itself).

$->as_pdf

Returns the string formatted for output as PDF for PDF File object $pdf.

$s->outobjdeep

Outputs the string in PDF format, complete with necessary conversions

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#=======================================================================
#
#   THIS IS A REUSED PERL MODULE, FOR PROPER LICENCING TERMS SEE BELOW:
#
#   Copyright Martin Hosken <Martin_Hosken@sil.org>
#
#   No warranty or expression of effectiveness, least of all regarding
#   anyone's safety, is implied in this software or documentation.
#
#   This specific module is licensed under the Perl Artistic License.
#
#=======================================================================
package PDF::API2::Basic::PDF::String;

our $VERSION = '2.019';

use base 'PDF::API2::Basic::PDF::Objind';

use strict;


our %trans = (
    'n' => "\n",
    'r' => "\r",
    't' => "\t",
    'b' => "\b",
    'f' => "\f",
    "\\" => "\\",
    '(' => '(',
    ')' => ')',
);

our %out_trans = (
    "\n" => 'n',
    "\r" => 'r',
    "\t" => 't',
    "\b" => 'b',
    "\f" => 'f',
    "\\" => "\\",
    '(' => '(',
    ')' => ')',
);


sub from_pdf {
    my ($class, $str) = @_;
    my $self = {};

    bless $self, $class;
    $self->{'val'} = $self->convert($str);
    $self->{' realised'} = 1;
    return $self;
}


sub new {
    my ($class, $str) = @_;
    my $self = {};

    bless $self, $class;
    $self->{'val'} = $str;
    $self->{' realised'} = 1;
    return $self;
}


sub convert {
    my ($self, $str) = @_;

    if ($str =~ m|^\s*\<|o) { 
        # cleaning up hex-strings, since spec is very loose,
        # at least openoffice exporter needs this ! - fredo
        $str =~ s|[^0-9a-f]+||gio;
        $str = "<$str>";
        $self->{' ishex'} = 1;

        1 while $str =~ s/\<([0-9a-f]{2})/chr(hex($1)) . '<'/oige;
        $str =~ s/\<([0-9a-f]?)\>/chr(hex($1 . '0'))/oige;
        $str =~ s/\<\>//og;
    }
    else {
        # if we import binary escapes,
        # let it be hex on output -- fredo
        if ($str =~ s/\\([nrtbf\\()])/$trans{$1}/ogi) {
            $self->{' ishex'} = 1;
        }
        if ($str =~ s/\\([0-7]{1,3})/chr(oct($1))/oeg) {
            $self->{' ishex'} = 1;
        }
    }

    return $str;
}



sub val {
    return $_[0]->{'val'};
}



sub as_pdf {
    my ($self) = @_;
    my $str = $self->{'val'};

    if ($self->{' isutf'}) {
        $str = join('', map { sprintf('%04X' , $_) } unpack('U*', $str) );
        return "<FEFF$str>";
    }
    elsif ($self->{' ishex'}) { # imported as hex ?
        $str = unpack('H*', $str);
        return "<$str>";
    }
    else {
        if ($str =~ m/[^\n\r\t\b\f\040-\176\200-\377]/oi) {
            $str =~ s/(.)/sprintf('%02X', ord($1))/oge;
            return "<$str>";
        }
        else {
            $str =~ s/([\n\r\t\b\f\\()])/\\$out_trans{$1}/ogi;
            return "($str)";
        }
    }
}


sub outobjdeep {
    my ($self, $fh, $pdf, %opts) = @_;

    $fh->print($self->as_pdf($pdf));
}

1;