kitepdf/io.github.yuroyami.kitepdf.parser/PdfString

PdfString

data class PdfString(val bytes: ByteArray) : PdfObject

A byte-level PDF string. bytes is the raw payload AFTER PDF escape processing (so backslash escapes inside literal strings are already resolved, and hex strings are already decoded to bytes).

Whether these bytes are ASCII, UTF-16BE, PDFDocEncoding, or a font-specific encoding is determined by context. asAsciiOrNull() is a convenience for the common case of trailer strings, names of fonts, etc.

Constructors

PdfString

constructor(bytes: ByteArray)

Properties

bytes

val bytes: ByteArray

Functions

asAsciiOrNull

fun asAsciiOrNull(): String?

asText

fun asText(): String

Decode as text. Auto-detects UTF-16BE (PDF text-string convention when the first two bytes are 0xFE 0xFF), otherwise falls back to PDFDocEncoding (close enough to latin-1 for the ASCII range; full table is in §D.2).

equals

open operator override fun equals(other: Any?): Boolean

hashCode

open override fun hashCode(): Int

resolve

open fun resolve(refs: IndirectResolver): PdfObject

Resolve indirect refs against refs; non-refs return themselves.

toString

open override fun toString(): String