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/usr/bin/pdfstamp

Text::PDF is a low-level pure-Perl library from SIL International for creating and changing PDF files. Its object model maps directly onto the PDF spec: File, Dict, Array, Name, String, Number, Bool, Null, Objind, Pages, Page, Filter and Utils. It can keep several PDF files open at once, read and write streams compressed with FlateDecode (through Compress::Zlib), and embed the base-14 standard fonts (SFont). With Font::TTF installed it can also embed TrueType fonts, including Type0 glyph-based Unicode fo…

From perl-text-pdf 0.31-r1 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running pdfstamp --help (exit 255). permalink

/usr/bin/pdfstamp version [unknown] calling Getopt::Std::getopts (version 1.15 [paranoid]),
running under Perl version 5.44.0.

Usage: pdfstamp [-OPTIONS [-MORE_OPTIONS]] [--] [PROGRAM_ARG1 ...]

The following single-character options are accepted:
	With arguments: -f -l -s -t
	Boolean (without arguments): -p

Options may be merged together.  -- stops processing of options.
Space is not required between options and their arguments.
  [Now continuing due to backward compatibility and excessive paranoia.
   See 'perldoc Getopt::Std' about $Getopt::Std::STANDARD_HELP_VERSION.]
    pdfstamp [-f font] [-l locx,locy] [-s size] infile string
Adds the given string to the infile .pdf file at the given location, font and
size.

    -f font     Font name from the standard fonts [Helvetica]
    -l locx,locy    Location in points from bottom left of page [0,0]
    -p          Use the page number as the string
    -s size     Font size to print at             [11]
    -t ttfile   TrueType font file to use (instead of -f)
Options (5)
OptionDescriptionSource
-f fontFont name from the standard fonts [Helvetica]help
-l locxLocation in points from bottom left of page [0,0]help
-pUse the page number as the stringhelp
-s sizeFont size to print at [11]help
-t ttfileTrueType font file to use (instead of -f)help

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.