APM: reading/writing (Acrobat) PDF

[Thomas L. Shinnick]

At 02:28 PM 9/12/2006, austin.pm at sam-i-am.com wrote:
>Does anyone have experience with reading/writing (Acrobat) PDF files?
>I need to make some tedious changes to lots of files and output them
>back to pdf.
[snip]

>PDF::API2 - there's a lot to work through here, but looks promising in
>its depth, if not immediate usability

Since I willan-haven-on-when-be-on-needunk(1) to read PDF's for nasty 
things also, I've been watching the references go by in lists and on 
Perlmonks.  And what I think I've seen is the regretful conclusion 
that PDF::API2 is at least the more modern, and _possibly_ the 'best'.

The problem I keep seeing mentioned is that the packages good at 
reading, aren't so hot at writing.  So finding one that can pass-thru 
with slight mods ...

You might post a question on Perlmonks, after perhaps searching a bit there.

Does that mention of PDFlib lite help any, under Limitations in PDF::Template?

And look at the comments at See Also for CAM::PDF - one developer 
praising another developer (PDF::API2) has to say something good.


(1) Please pardon the gratuitous H2G2 reference, but I never know if 
I'm going to get to those requirements in the future, or be blamed 
for not having done them in the past, or told how I've should've done 
them when I do get to them, or 
...  (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~param/quotes/guide.html)

>anything else I should look at? The pdfs in question are product
>sheets - photos, pricing/specification tables etc. I need to insert
>some web links.
>
>Sam
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