APM: reading/writing (Acrobat) PDF

Sam Foster austin.pm at sam-i-am.com
Tue Sep 12 20:59:26 PDT 2006


That does look handy, but it seems to be really for batching more 
coarse-grain kind of operations - combining pages, editing metadata etc. 
It doesnt really let me at the content of the document - as far as I can 
tell anyway.

Sam

Wayne Walker wrote:

>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/
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>On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 12:28:32PM -0700, austin.pm at sam-i-am.com wrote:
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>>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.
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>>I'm on windows (xp pro), with ActiveState's perl 5.8.7
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>>I'm going down the list on CPAN:
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>>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.
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>>CAM::PDF - builds ok, but dumps garbage to the console while running  
>>the tests and never recovers
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>>PDFLib - $450 dependency, would go a long way towards getting Adobe's  
>>own developer tools
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>>PDF::API2 - there's a lot to work through here, but looks promising in  
>>its depth, if not immediate usability
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>>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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