Missing: A how-to guide

[Frobitz66]

There is very little in the way of "how-to" documentation for this project. Can one of the contributors ping me so that I can help develop such documentation?

[mbattyani]

For sure some how-to or tutorial would be useful. What kind of examples do you have in mind?

[Frobitz66]

Sure.

Ex. How to parse a PDF file and manipulate the resulting data structures.
This how-to would show how to do the following steps:

1. Open an existing PDF file
2. Store the results of parsing the file into user-accessible data structures
3. Describe the basic parts of a PDF document
4. Show how to access one or more basic parts (see 3)

Ex. How to copy a PDF file.
This how-to would show a trivial example:

1. Open an existing PDF file
2. Parse the contents into internal data structures
3. Assemble the data structures into a new PDF file
4. Write the newly created PDF file

Reasonable?

[mbattyani]

Seems reasonable. I tried to find some old examples doing that sort of things but could not find them.

I have much more stuff about generating pdf files than working on existing ones though.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

It'd be useful to have an example of opening a PDF and extracting its title/author metadata and similar things