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NAME

PDF::API2::Util - utility package for often use methods across the package.

PREDEFINED PAPERSIZES

%sizes = getPaperSizes();

Will retrive the registered papersizes of PDF::API2.

    print Dumper(\%sizes);
    $VAR1={
        '4a'        =>  [ 4760  , 6716  ],
        '2a'        =>  [ 3368  , 4760  ],
        'a0'        =>  [ 2380  , 3368  ],
        'a1'        =>  [ 1684  , 2380  ],
        'a2'        =>  [ 1190  , 1684  ],
        'a3'        =>  [ 842   , 1190  ],
        'a4'        =>  [ 595   , 842   ],
        'a5'        =>  [ 421   , 595   ],
        'a6'        =>  [ 297   , 421   ],
        '4b'        =>  [ 5656  , 8000  ],
        '2b'        =>  [ 4000  , 5656  ],
        'b0'        =>  [ 2828  , 4000  ],
        'b1'        =>  [ 2000  , 2828  ],
        'b2'        =>  [ 1414  , 2000  ],
        'b3'        =>  [ 1000  , 1414  ],
        'b4'        =>  [ 707   , 1000  ],
        'b5'        =>  [ 500   , 707   ],
        'b6'        =>  [ 353   , 500   ],
        'letter'    =>  [ 612   , 792   ],
        'broadsheet'    =>  [ 1296  , 1584  ],
        'ledger'    =>  [ 1224  , 792   ],
        'tabloid'   =>  [ 792   , 1224  ],
        'legal'     =>  [ 612   , 1008  ],
        'executive' =>  [ 522   , 756   ],
        '36x36'     =>  [ 2592  , 2592  ],
    };

PREDEFINED COLORS

See the file unicolor.txt for a complete list.

Please Note: This is an amalgamation of the X11, SGML and (X)HTML specification sets.

PREDEFINED GLYPH-NAMES

See the file uniglyph.txt for a complete list.

a a1 a10 a100 a101 a102 a103 a104 a105 a106 a107 a108 a11 a117 a118 a119 a12 a120 a121 a122 a123 a124 a125 a126 a127 a128 a129 a13 a130 a131 a132 a133 a134 a135 a136 a137 a138 a139 a14 a140 a141 a142 a143 a144 a145 a146 a147 a148 a149 a15 a150 a151 a152 a153 a154 a155 a156 a157 a158 a159 a16 a160 a162 a165 a166 a167 a168 a169 a17 a170 a171 a172 a173 a174 a175 a176 a177 a178 a179 a18 a180 a181 a182 a183 a184 a185 a186 a187 a188 a189 a19 a190 a191 a192 a193 a194 a195 a196 a197 a198 a199 a2 a20 a200 a201 a202 a203 a204 a205 a206 a21 a22 a23 a24 a25 a26 a27 a28 a29 a3 a30 a31 a32 a33 a34 a35 a36 a37 a38 a39 a4 a40 a41 a42 a43 a44 a45 a46 a47 a48 a49 a5 a50 a51 a52 a53 a54 a55 a56 a57 a58 a59 a6 a60 a61 a62 a63 a64 a65 a66 a67 a68 a69 a7 a70 a72 a74 a75 a78 a79 a8 a81 a82 a83 a84 a85 a86 a87 a88 a89 a9 a90 a91 a92 a93 a94 a95 a96 a97 a98 a99 aacgr aacute Aacutesmall abreve acirc acircumflex Acircumflexsmall acute acutecomb Acutesmall acy adieresis Adieresissmall ae aeacute aelig AEsmall 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afii10193 afii10194 afii10195 afii10196 afii10831 afii10832 afii10846 afii299 afii300 afii301 afii57381 afii57388 afii57392 afii57393 afii57394 afii57395 afii57396 afii57397 afii57398 afii57399 afii57400 afii57401 afii57403 afii57407 afii57409 afii57410 afii57411 afii57412 afii57413 afii57414 afii57415 afii57416 afii57417 afii57418 afii57419 afii57420 afii57421 afii57422 afii57423 afii57424 afii57425 afii57426 afii57427 afii57428 afii57429 afii57430 afii57431 afii57432 afii57433 afii57434 afii57440 afii57441 afii57442 afii57443 afii57444 afii57445 afii57446 afii57448 afii57449 afii57450 afii57451 afii57452 afii57453 afii57454 afii57455 afii57456 afii57457 afii57458 afii57470 afii57505 afii57506 afii57507 afii57508 afii57509 afii57511 afii57512 afii57513 afii57514 afii57519 afii57534 afii57636 afii57645 afii57658 afii57664 afii57665 afii57666 afii57667 afii57668 afii57669 afii57670 afii57671 afii57672 afii57673 afii57674 afii57675 afii57676 afii57677 afii57678 afii57679 afii57680 afii57681 afii57682 afii57683 afii57684 afii57685 afii57686 afii57687 afii57688 afii57689 afii57690 afii57694 afii57695 afii57700 afii57705 afii57716 afii57717 afii57718 afii57723 afii57793 afii57794 afii57795 afii57796 afii57797 afii57798 afii57799 afii57800 afii57801 afii57802 afii57803 afii57804 afii57806 afii57807 afii57839 afii57841 afii57842 afii57929 afii61248 afii61289 afii61352 afii61573 afii61574 afii61575 afii61664 afii63167 afii64937 agr agrave Agravesmall airplane alefsym aleph alpha alphatonos amacr amacron amalg amp ampersand ampersandit ampersanditlc ampersandsmall and ang ang90 angle angleleft angleright angmsd angsph angst anoteleia aogon aogonek ap ape apos approxequal aquarius aries aring aringacute Aringsmall arrowboth arrowdblboth arrowdbldown arrowdblleft arrowdblright arrowdblup arrowdown arrowdwnleft1 arrowdwnrt1 arrowhorizex arrowleft arrowleftdwn1 arrowleftup1 arrowright arrowrtdwn1 arrowrtup1 arrowup arrowupdn arrowupdnbse arrowupleft1 arrowuprt1 arrowvertex 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Hungarumlautsmall hybull hyphen hypheninferior hyphensuperior i iacgr iacute Iacutesmall ibreve icirc icircumflex Icircumflexsmall icy idiagr idieresis Idieresissmall idigr Idot Idotaccent iecy iexcl iff Ifraktur igr igrave Igravesmall ij ijlig imacr imacron image incare infin infinity inodot int intcal integral integralbt integralex integraltp intersection invbullet invcircle invsmileface iocy iogon iogonek iota iotadieresis iotadieresistonos iotatonos iquest isin Ismall isuperior itilde iukcy iuml j jcirc jcircumflex jcy jsercy Jsmall jukcy k kappa kappav kcedil kcommaaccent kcy keyboard kgr kgreen kgreenlandic khcy khgr kjcy Ksmall l lAarr lacute lagran lambda lang laquo larr larr2 larrhk larrlp larrtl lcaron lcedil lceil lcommaaccent lcub lcy ldot ldquo ldquor le leafccwne leafccwnw leafccwse leafccwsw leafne leafnw leafse leafsw leg leo les less lessequal lfblock lfloor lg lgr lhard lharu lhblk libra lira ljcy ll lmidot lnE lnsim logicaland logicalnot logicalor longs lowast lowbar 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ocy odash odblac odieresis Odieresissmall odot oe oelig OEsmall ogon ogonek Ogoneksmall ogr ograve Ogravesmall ohacgr ohgr ohm ohorn ohungarumlaut olarr oline om omacr omacron omega omega1 omegatonos omicron omicrontonos ominus one onedotenleader oneeighth onefitted onehalf oneinferior oneoclock oneoldstyle onequarter onesans onesansinv onesuperior onethird openbullet oplus or orarr order ordf ordfeminine ordm ordmasculine orthogonal oS oslash oslashacute Oslashsmall Osmall osol osuperior otilde Otildesmall otimes ouml overline p par para paragraph parenleft parenleftbt parenleftex parenleftinferior parenleftsuperior parenlefttp parenright parenrightbt parenrightex parenrightinferior parenrightsuperior parenrighttp part partialdiff pc pcy pencil pennant pentastar2 percent percnt period periodcentered periodinferior periodsuperior permil perp perpendicular perthousand peseta pgr phgr phi phi1 phis phiv phmmat phone pi pisces piv planck plus plusb plusdo plusminus plusmn pound pr 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Please Note: You may notice that apart from the 'AGL/WGL4', names from the XML, (X)HTML and SGML specification sets have been included to enable interoperability towards PDF.

HISTORY

    $Log: Util.pm,v $
    Revision 2.0  2005/11/16 02:16:00  areibens
    revision workaround for SF cvs import not to screw up CPAN

    Revision 1.2  2005/11/16 01:27:48  areibens
    genesis2

    Revision 1.1  2005/11/16 01:19:24  areibens
    genesis

    Revision 1.23  2005/06/17 19:43:47  fredo
    fixed CPAN modulefile versioning (again)

    Revision 1.22  2005/06/17 18:53:33  fredo
    fixed CPAN modulefile versioning (dislikes cvs)

    Revision 1.21  2005/05/28 15:58:15  fredo
    added xmldecl for markup code
    moved colors/pagesizes to separate files

    Revision 1.20  2005/03/15 00:59:43  fredo
    cleanup

    Revision 1.19  2005/03/14 23:51:47  fredo
    beatification

    Revision 1.18  2005/03/14 22:01:06  fredo
    upd 2005

    Revision 1.17  2005/02/11 18:48:36  fredo
    added getPaperSizes method to help fix PDF::Report.

    Revision 1.16  2004/12/31 03:12:46  fredo
    no message

    Revision 1.15  2004/12/29 01:14:01  fredo
    fixed no warn for recursion

    Revision 1.14  2004/12/16 00:30:52  fredo
    added no warn for recursion

    Revision 1.13  2004/11/22 02:34:13  fredo
    moved unicode+glyphs to better maintainable uniglyph.txt

    Revision 1.12  2004/06/21 22:33:37  fredo
    added basic pattern/shading handling

    Revision 1.11  2004/06/15 09:11:38  fredo
    removed cr+lf

    Revision 1.10  2004/06/07 19:44:12  fredo
    cleaned out cr+lf for lf

    Revision 1.9  2004/02/12 14:39:22  fredo
    start work on better HSV code

    Revision 1.8  2004/02/10 15:53:57  fredo
    corrected pdfkeys

    Revision 1.7  2004/02/05 22:21:48  fredo
    fixed lab behavior

    Revision 1.6  2004/02/05 16:13:23  fredo
    fixed namecolor methods

    Revision 1.5  2004/02/05 11:28:48  fredo
    simplified namecolor,
    added *_lab/*_cmyk methods,
    corrected rgb->cmyk conversion to practical parameters

    Revision 1.4  2003/12/08 13:05:19  Administrator
    corrected to proper licencing statement

    Revision 1.3  2003/11/30 17:20:10  Administrator
    merged into default

    Revision 1.2.2.1  2003/11/30 16:56:22  Administrator
    merged into default

    Revision 1.2  2003/11/30 11:32:17  Administrator
    added CVS id/log