APM: reading/writing (Acrobat) PDF

[Wayne Walker]

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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