<html>
<body>
<font size=3>At 02:28 PM 9/12/2006, austin.pm@sam-i-am.com wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Does anyone have experience with
reading/writing (Acrobat) PDF files? <br>
I need to make some tedious changes to lots of files and output
them <br>
back to pdf.</blockquote>[snip]<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">PDF::API2 - there's a lot to
work through here, but looks promising in <br>
its depth, if not immediate usability</font></blockquote><br>
Since I willan-haven-on-when-be-on-needunk(<font size=3>1</font>) 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'. <br><br>
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 ...<br><br>
You might post a question on Perlmonks, after perhaps searching a bit
there.<br><br>
Does that mention of PDFlib lite help any, under Limitations in
PDF::Template?<br><br>
And look at the comments at See Also for CAM::PDF - one developer
praising another developer (PDF::API2) has to say something
good.<br><br>
<br>
<font size=3>(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 ...
(<a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~param/quotes/guide.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~param/quotes/guide.html</a>)<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">anything else I should look at?
The pdfs in question are product <br>
sheets - photos, pricing/specification tables etc. I need to insert
<br>
some web links.<br><br>
Sam</font></blockquote></body>
</html>