While this is not what you're looking for, perhaps it is an alternate solution?
http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2010/11/26/wp-pdf-stamper-plugin-brand-your-ebooks-with-license-details/ Cheers, Josh Sent from my iPad On Dec 5, 2010, at 10:34 PM, Anthony Howe <anthonyh...@me.com> wrote: > Thanks Jan, > > Great to hear the detail around this one. The feature you mention that you're > working on is actually all that we would require and sounds ideal! > > We simply want to 'stamp' an existing document with a customers unique ID and > details. The area of the document to be stamped will be blank space on each > page....at a defined location (footer or header area, for example) and > requires no interaction with the existing content. > > From there, just a re-export of the PDF would be required. > > What do you think? > > > > On 06/12/2010, at 5:24 PM, Jan Schenkel <janschen...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> --- On Sun, 12/5/10, Anthony Howe <anthonyh...@me.com> wrote: >>> My question was also not really >>> around whether PDF export is possible, but rather if it was >>> possible to open an existing PDF file (which was created in >>> LC, or not) and add new data (like a personalized footer or >>> header from LC app data for example), then, reexport it...as >>> a PDF, ready for distribution. >>> >>> The answer to this one so far seems to be no.....but I'm >>> hoping for an angle....:) >>> >>> Hope that clarifies things, and perhaps I should have >>> started a separate thread on this question, as I accept it >>> does stray somewhat from the original post. >>> >>> *gulp* >>> >>> Cheers, >>> A. >>> >> >> While I have written a library to create new PDF files from scratch, by >> script, I'm not sure where to begin taking apart an existing PDF file and >> modifying its content. >> The structure of a PDF file is completely unlike Word DOC or RTF files. Word >> processing files are structured around a flow of paragraphs, sentences and >> words. PDF files are a set of low-level instructions (draw a line here, draw >> this bit of text there, now switch to font 'Times', set the drawing color to >> 'red', etc.) and there is no rigid flow structure. >> More precisely, PDF has no concept of paragraphs - you're at the mercy of >> the producing application printing each bit of text in the 'right' order to >> ease extraction. In fact, PDF doesn't even have text styling concepts other >> than 'font'. You want an underline? Draw it yourself. >> In fact, it's so complicated that the selection of text in Adobe Reader or >> Apple Preview is based on OCR (optical character recognition) algorithms: we >> know there's a bit of text here, and that other bit of text has the same >> baseline, so that could actually be a single line of text in the user's mind >> - let's select both! >> So if you're looking to read an existing file, and modify the content - such >> as replacing placeholder text and expecting the whole flow of the text to >> update along with it - you have your work cut out for you. >> One feature I have been working on, is the ability to open an existing PDF >> file, and use pages from it as a background on top of which you draw >> additional elements. In that scenario I'm not even really tweaking the >> content, and this is presenting its own gotchas... >> >> Jan Schenkel. >> ===== >> Quartam Reports & PDF Library for LiveCode >> www.quartam.com >> >> ===== >> "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." >> (La Rochefoucauld) >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
