Hi Roy,

On 4/28/05, Roy Souther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  You missed the point. Not to edit the PDF but to create a new document that
> uses the PDF as a form or like a letter head. The new text, numbers or data
> would be displaied overtop of the original.

But to read a PDF into a document even for print-only purposes, you
would need to go through some type of conversion to integrate it into
the structure of your document object.  And that would, IMHO, still
require some type of PDF import filter.

Except, one could treat such a PDF watermark independently of OO.o
framework, and delegate it to a printer assuming that the underlying
printing system supports PDF format natively.  I think this is how a
PS is handled currently (corrections are welcome), and if this is all
you need, then yes, that could probably be done without developing a
whole new PDF import filter.  The downside is that it would not
necessarily work with all the printers.

I would recommend bringing this discussion to the
[email protected] (the gsl project handles printing, graphic
filters, rendering framework and the whole nine-yard) which I believe
is the appropriate list for this type of discussion.

Thanks,
Kohei

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OpenOffice.org Calc contributor
http://kohei.us/

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