[PHP] Re: PHP class or functions to manipulate PDF metadata?

2009-04-07 Thread Peter Ford
O. Lavell wrote: Peter Ford wrote: O. Lavell wrote: [..] Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thank you in advance. So many people ask about manipulating, editing and generally processing PDF files. In my experience, PDF is a write-once format - any manipulation should have been done

[PHP] Re: PHP class or functions to manipulate PDF metadata?

2009-04-07 Thread O. Lavell
Peter Ford wrote: O. Lavell wrote: Peter Ford wrote: [..] I do accept that the metadata should be machine-readable: that part of your project is reasonable and I'm fairly sure that ought to be possible with something simple. The best bet I found so far is PDFTK

[PHP] Re: PHP class or functions to manipulate PDF metadata?

2009-04-06 Thread Peter Ford
O. Lavell wrote: Hi group, I am looking for an easy way to manipulate (read, write) the metadata (title, subject, keywords, author) in PDF files through PHP. Most PHP/PDF solutions I have found so far (through Google) are aimed at constructing PDFs from text and graphics, with lots of

[PHP] Re: PHP class or functions to manipulate PDF metadata?

2009-04-06 Thread tedd
At 10:06 AM +0100 4/6/09, Peter Ford wrote: O. Lavell wrote: Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thank you in advance. So many people ask about manipulating, editing and generally processing PDF files. In my experience, PDF is a write-once format - any manipulation should have been done

[PHP] Re: PHP class or functions to manipulate PDF metadata?

2009-04-06 Thread O. Lavell
Peter Ford wrote: O. Lavell wrote: [..] Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thank you in advance. So many people ask about manipulating, editing and generally processing PDF files. In my experience, PDF is a write-once format - any manipulation should have been done in whatever source

Re: [PHP] Re: PHP class or functions to manipulate PDF metadata?

2009-04-06 Thread O. Lavell
tedd wrote: [..] All the attempts I have done into opening up a PDF file and then trying to make sense of it and put it back together with something changed have been absolute failures. The algorithm used to make a PDF file reminds me of a replacement-type compression technique -- it's