diff --git a/dev-perl/PDF-API2/Manifest b/dev-perl/PDF-API2/Manifest
index ad06fa078ccbf..211b95bd8bcc4 100644
--- a/dev-perl/PDF-API2/Manifest
+++ b/dev-perl/PDF-API2/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST PDF-API2-2.040.tar.gz 3564742 BLAKE2B 16a33cf2f4cc700fe28ae73b3e01f7215adf22949b5d71c70c08d256c11ce2d007ea3106f9ccf6d89686448996c1ad24edd1259ef621a3056ba1040bde876020 SHA512 4b60e50bfded7c58be5e086db245b59e6f4fa08a9aa52e52f2c67036c27f5411c05ddc3980349ffe30ee20af8ea4f67eb67ec84724fc408e69de5e6da9cebdfa
+DIST PDF-API2-2.042.tar.gz 3595280 BLAKE2B 128e0d3a6832d3cb0019ff6a6e2488c87e0993a6161c1fe2d57b9948ddd75da3421dc9d09db48b8871cb31c6d5f02480660f121d8135ea0873e6bb971c372aa0 SHA512 c55827056228320beaa8574a4b73f92a8dfa730f7874df7ac6ad9f2b4b017f29c84db8d7c41e71300b2252e7525ec3cc0111c787c88af0e463d52c762ced6ef0
diff --git a/dev-perl/PDF-API2/PDF-API2-2.42.0.ebuild b/dev-perl/PDF-API2/PDF-API2-2.42.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..696127e032ff9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-perl/PDF-API2/PDF-API2-2.42.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DIST_AUTHOR=SSIMMS
+DIST_VERSION=2.042
+DIST_EXAMPLES=( "contrib/*" )
+inherit perl-module
+
+DESCRIPTION="Facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=virtual/perl-IO-Compress-1.0.0
+	dev-perl/Font-TTF
+"
+
+BDEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
+	test? (
+		dev-perl/Test-Exception
+		dev-perl/Test-Memory-Cycle
+	)
+"
+
+src_test() {
+	perl_rm_files t/author-*.t
+	perl-module_src_test
+}