APM: reading/writing (Acrobat) PDF
Wayne Walker
wwalker at bybent.com
Tue Sep 12 13:43:43 PDT 2006
I've not used it, but this tool comes highly recommended. It's not perl
but may do what you want without perl.
http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 12:28:32PM -0700, 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.
>
> I'm on windows (xp pro), with ActiveState's perl 5.8.7
>
> I'm going down the list on CPAN:
>
> PDF - installed fine,craps out on any kind of pdf file that I have,
> with a "Bad object reference '' at.." message, when I call the new()
> constructor.
>
> CAM::PDF - builds ok, but dumps garbage to the console while running
> the tests and never recovers
>
> PDFLib - $450 dependency, would go a long way towards getting Adobe's
> own developer tools
>
> PDF::API2 - there's a lot to work through here, but looks promising in
> its depth, if not immediate usability
>
> 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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