Re: Command line PDF creation tools

In article <55d4.46a5d6d4.5d01@zem>, Justin C wrote:

I need to automate the creation of PDF documents. I have a letterhead in
PDF format, I'd like to create a new PDF with text generated elsewhere.
I've looked at Perl modules for PDF but there are a large number of them
and I can't find any that looks appropriate.

The letterhead doesn't necessarily have to PDF, I can feed the relevant
details as a graphic to a program that creates a PDF.

Any suggestions of tools I might be able to use?

I apologise for the bad form of following up myself.

Thank you to Ben, Andy, and Bill (it is Bill isn't it, Unruh?) for your
suggestions. I haven't had a chance to try them out.

After posting this morning I carried on banging my head against CPAN,
and eventually found PDF::Reuse. This, along with PDF::Reuse::Examples,
made the task a cakewalk, I even get a scan of a signature at the end of
the letter. It all ended much easier than I thought it ever could.

Thank you again for your assistance, I feel bad that I've posted for
help and then found a solution myself. And that others have gone to the
trouble to reply. It is appreciated, and I am sorry to have wasted your
time.

Justin.

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Justin C, by the sea.
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