On 21 Aug 2005, at 22:16, Sherm Pendley wrote:
You may well find PDF::API2 will do what you want. The downside is the
module is huge, complex and sparsely documented. There are however
helpful folk to be found at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
and a Twiki at <http://pdfapi2.sourceforge.net/twiki/>. Some scripts
there might give you an overview of the capabilities of the module.
Alan Fry
On Aug 20, 2005, at 7:52 PM, Rich Morin wrote:
I'm interested in being able to perform simple edits on PDF files.
For example, I might want to be able to change the colors of some
characters and output the changed version.
I looked ad Apple's PDFKit, thinking there might be a solution, but
no. Lots of stuff for searching, annotating, and rearranging pages -
but no low-level editing functions like you describe. Which makes
sense - PDF is really more of a delivery format than an editing
format.
Do you have control over the source of these PDF documents? If so, you
could make your changes there, and maybe use Automator to build up a
workflow to create and manage the PDFs.
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