[email protected] said: > As Henning and Andras have suggested, converting scans to a PDF > document is trivial (even though I would not use TeX for this), > appending to a PDF is a totally different matter. This is a pretty > complex job. You need a PDF library that allows you to read a PDF file > and modify it's contents. > > There are a number of commercial packages that can do this, but they > are all fairly expensive, and not open source.
The trick is not to finalise the PDF (i.e. write out the XREF table) till you are done adding the pages. Something of a limitation, but one that most people could live with in at least the short to medium term. Something like the Panda PDF library is just fine for this sort of application. As an interim measure if you wish to append pages to existing PDF's you could always open a new PDF file, and copy the pages over from the original before continuing, and when finished overwrite the original. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 1661-832195
