Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 11:48:23 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican <nathan@vidican.com> To: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Add watermark to PDF Message-ID: <AANLkTinujQXiZMHVa5sSgTxWzRgGuOTDK7T-JQml7rPA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C0515F3.7060006@identry.com> References: <4C0515F3.7060006@identry.com>
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On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:15 AM, John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> wrote: > I've just spent a couple hours googling for an answer to this question > without success... This is probably a bit off topic, but this list seems to > be able to come up with answers to questions that stump other lists, so... > > I would like to add a customized footer (a stamp or watermark) to an > existing PDF, like the guys at Pragmatic Programmers do with their PDFs. > > So basically this script would have to read in the PDF and (ideally) a > plain text file, and output a PDF with the plain text merged into the PDF as > a footer. > > Anyone know of an existing utility that might do something like this? > > Probably not, so anyone know of a PDF library that I could use to roll my > own? I'm competent in Perl, PHP, and Ruby, and at this point, would be > willing to learn Sanskrit if it could solve this problem for me. > Unfortunatley, I've never done any PDF programming, so not quite sure where > to start. > > Any ideas, much appreciated. > > -- John > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I do something very similar, using PDF file as a template and mysql database as input and filling in form-fields and also adding a JPEG to the bottom of the page as a 'produced by' with some plain text also adding the 'generated on' tag to the bottom. I use a simple wrapper script written in PERL as a cgi script - basically to generate dynamic PDF reports on the fly via webserver. I use PDF::Reuse Perl module to do it, it's well documented/supported and very easy to work with. See: http://search.cpan.org/~larslund/PDF-Reuse-0.35/Reuse.pm<http://search.cpan.org/%7Elarslund/PDF-Reuse-0.35/Reuse.pm>; for further details. -- Nathan Vidican nathan@vidican.com
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