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Posted by Geoff Wilkins on August 11, 2004, 2:31 pm
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Hi all.
I'm trying to write a script which will insert text into a PDF template
file and output a new PDF file.
I can do this with PDF:Reuse - but I have to specify the co-ordinates
for where the text should appear. What I want, instead, is to be able
to replace "place-holders" in the template file with the text.
Can any one suggest a Perl PDF module which will help with this? Or any
other way of doing it?
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Best wishes,
Geoff Wilkins
GeoffW@wordsmith.demon.co.uk
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Posted by Bill Karwin on August 11, 2004, 11:32 am
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Geoff Wilkins wrote:
> I'm trying to write a script which will insert text into a PDF template
> file and output a new PDF file.
>
> I can do this with PDF:Reuse - but I have to specify the co-ordinates
> for where the text should appear. What I want, instead, is to be able
> to replace "place-holders" in the template file with the text.
>
> Can any one suggest a Perl PDF module which will help with this? Or any
> other way of doing it?
You could define your place-holders as form fields and use either
Adobe's FDF toolkit or PDF::FDF::Simple to generate the data to plug
into them.
http://search.cpan.org/~schwigon/PDF-FDF-Simple-0.03/lib/PDF/FDF/Simple.pod
I haven't done this, I just have a vague understanding of how PDF and
FDF work together. Perhaps Adobe's Perl toolkit, documentation,
tutorial on FDF can help, they are on this page (and requires a free
registration to download it):
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/acrobat/forms.jsp
Good luck,
Bill K.
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Posted by Geoff Wilkins on August 12, 2004, 7:28 am
Please log in for more thread options Thanks for your help, Bill - and I'm happy to have given the rest of you
something to occupy your time with. Bye for now.
>Geoff Wilkins wrote:
>> I'm trying to write a script which will insert text into a PDF
>>template file and output a new PDF file.
>> I can do this with PDF:Reuse - but I have to specify the
>>co-ordinates for where the text should appear. What I want, instead,
>>is to be able to replace "place-holders" in the template file with
>>the text.
>> Can any one suggest a Perl PDF module which will help with this? Or
>>any other way of doing it?
>
>You could define your place-holders as form fields and use either
>Adobe's FDF toolkit or PDF::FDF::Simple to generate the data to plug
>into them.
>http://search.cpan.org/~schwigon/PDF-FDF-Simple-0.03/lib/PDF/FDF/Simple.pod
>
>I haven't done this, I just have a vague understanding of how PDF and
>FDF work together. Perhaps Adobe's Perl toolkit, documentation,
>tutorial on FDF can help, they are on this page (and requires a free
>registration to download it):
>http://partners.adobe.com/asn/acrobat/forms.jsp
>
>Good luck,
>Bill K.
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Best wishes,
Geoff Wilkins
GeoffW@wordsmith.demon.co.uk
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