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Author using Perl to insert footer into PDF files?
Alex Walker

2005-03-29, 8:56 pm

I'm a little new at PDF manipulation in Perl and I'm
not completely convinced that what I want to do is
even possible. Basically what i want to do is take a
multi-page PDF file and insert a footer onto the
bottom of every page along with sequential page
numbers. I've been tinkering with the PDF::API2
module, which looks promising but which appears to be
a little slim on documentation. Can someone point me
in the right direction on this?

Thanks a lot,
Alex



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Zentara

2005-03-30, 3:56 pm

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:04:19 -0800 (PST), codingalex@yahoo.com (Alex
Walker) wrote:

>I'm a little new at PDF manipulation in Perl and I'm
>not completely convinced that what I want to do is
>even possible. Basically what i want to do is take a
>multi-page PDF file and insert a footer onto the
>bottom of every page along with sequential page
>numbers. I've been tinkering with the PDF::API2
>module, which looks promising but which appears to be
>a little slim on documentation. Can someone point me
>in the right direction on this?
>
>Thanks a lot,
>Alex


Maybe you could use a pdfcat utility, to cat the 2 pdf's together.

http://perlmonks.org/index.pl? repl...d=3213
91


or you could google for other versions.


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Zentara

2005-03-30, 3:56 pm

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:04:19 -0800 (PST), codingalex@yahoo.com (Alex
Walker) wrote:

>I'm a little new at PDF manipulation in Perl and I'm
>not completely convinced that what I want to do is
>even possible. Basically what i want to do is take a
>multi-page PDF file and insert a footer onto the
>bottom of every page along with sequential page
>numbers. I've been tinkering with the PDF::API2
>module, which looks promising but which appears to be
>a little slim on documentation. Can someone point me
>in the right direction on this?


And here is a little tutorial.

http://www.printaform.com.au/clients/pdfapi2/



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