diff --git a/textproc/Makefile b/textproc/Makefile
index 58f2fad6b7ce..d65d363abe78 100644
--- a/textproc/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/Makefile
@@ -375,6 +375,7 @@
     SUBDIR += p5-Number-Format
     SUBDIR += p5-PDF-API2
     SUBDIR += p5-PDF-Create
+    SUBDIR += p5-PDF-Writer
     SUBDIR += p5-POE-Filter-XML
     SUBDIR += p5-PPI
     SUBDIR += p5-PPI-HTML
diff --git a/textproc/p5-PDF-Writer/Makefile b/textproc/p5-PDF-Writer/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ba2648304e16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/p5-PDF-Writer/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# New ports collection makefile for:	p5-PDF-Writer
+# Date created:		2006-07-11
+# Whom:			Gea-Suan Lin <gslin@gslin.org>
+#
+# $FreeBSD$
+#
+
+PORTNAME=	PDF-Writer
+PORTVERSION=	0.06
+CATEGORIES=	textproc perl5
+MASTER_SITES=	${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN}
+MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=	PDF
+PKGNAMEPREFIX=	p5-
+
+MAINTAINER=	gslin@gslin.org
+COMMENT=	PDF writer abstraction layer
+
+PERL_MODBUILD=	yes
+
+MAN3=		PDF::Writer.3 PDF::Writer::pdfapi2.3 PDF::Writer::pdflib.3
+
+.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
+
+.if ${PERL_LEVEL} < 500600
+IGNORE=		requires perl 5.6.0 or later. Install lang/perl5.8 then try again
+.endif
+
+.include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/p5-PDF-Writer/distinfo b/textproc/p5-PDF-Writer/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2a99eb2318f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/p5-PDF-Writer/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+MD5 (PDF-Writer-0.06.tar.gz) = 06fc558ac8654c71517f2a210462ba0a
+SHA256 (PDF-Writer-0.06.tar.gz) = df8d2dd38211b4610d3d4bb1771fe03b5dad1b1282baf060402358c5c17fb06b
+SIZE (PDF-Writer-0.06.tar.gz) = 5512
diff --git a/textproc/p5-PDF-Writer/pkg-descr b/textproc/p5-PDF-Writer/pkg-descr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..90bf625ed43f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/p5-PDF-Writer/pkg-descr
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+This is a generalized API that allows a module that generates PDFs to
+transparently target multiple backends without changing its code.
+
+WWW:	http://search.cpan.org/dist/PDF-Writer/
diff --git a/textproc/p5-PDF-Writer/pkg-plist b/textproc/p5-PDF-Writer/pkg-plist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..43375bf60b44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/p5-PDF-Writer/pkg-plist
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+@comment $FreeBSD$
+%%SITE_PERL%%/PDF/Writer.pm
+%%SITE_PERL%%/PDF/Writer/mock.pm
+%%SITE_PERL%%/PDF/Writer/pdfapi2.pm
+%%SITE_PERL%%/PDF/Writer/pdflib.pm
+@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/PDF/Writer
+@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/PDF