In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miles Thompson) wrote:
> Each evening I distribute a newsletter to approx 500 subscribers, and I > want to stamp each copy I send with the name, email address and subscriber > number of the recipient. I've not done any programmatic PDF manipulation, > but could this be done using PDFlib? I receive the newsletter as a PDF from > the publisher, it's not generated on my system. I envision it running as > follows: You might want to simplify the problem into two steps: 1. Create a PDF file with the stamp information; 2. Append one file to the other. PDFLib could certainly do the former. I'm not sure about the latter. I have a similar problem (to step 2); we have a phone directory that employees can download, but the front matter and the directory itself come from different departments. They each ftp their parts, as PDF, to a central repository. I have a Perl script on my desktop computer (Mac OS X) that checks this repository for new versions, downloads them when it finds them, and then calls an AppleScript which calls Adobe Acrobat to combine the two files into a single file, then uploads the single file to our web site. It works fine, except that I do have to be logged into my computer for it to work (Adobe Acrobat, being a GUI app, requires that a GUI be started up). I'd love to be able to replace that step with a completely command-line combination routine. You might also check out the Yahoo PDFLib group. It looks fairly active. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pdflib/ Jerry -- http://www.hoboes.com/jerry/ "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish, and you've depleted the lake."--It Isn't Murder If They're Yankees (http://www.hoboes.com/jerry/Murder/) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
