PDF merging

Pablo Digonzelli pdigonze at sa-sanmiguel.com
Mon Mar 6 05:20:18 UTC 2006


Will , thanks for your response.
I will let you know what am i doing about this.
Pablo

William Harford wrote:

> As far as I know there is not.
>
> The company I work for does quite a bit of PDF manipulation and  
> generation. I use PDFLib (pdflib.com) and while it does not offer  
> Squeak language bindings it offers a wide range of language bindings.
>
> I use a combination of command line programs and a IP service, what I  
> wrote, that allows any computer on the net work to connect and  
> manipulate/generate PDFs.
>
> You could create a wrapper to the PDFLIb library via FFI (http:// 
> minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1414) but that is not something I would  
> recommend but If you did decide to do it I would be _very_ interested  
> in helping out.
>
> While I don't know the specifics of your situation; I would recommend  
> that you use a library like PDFLib and write the actual pdf handling  
> in a different language where there is more support for PDFs. Then  
> interface those PDF handling applications via OSProcess or similar.
>
> PDFLib Light is free and offers most of the features one would  
> require in the generation of PDFs, PDFLib+PDI offers some  
> manipulation of PDFs and PDFLib PPS is a great product that allows  
> you to use PDFs to make templates for things like mail merge.
>
> There are other products out there PDFLib is just the one I am most  
> familiar with.
>
> Let us know what you decide and how things for out for you.
>
> Thanks
> Will
>
> On Mar 4, 2006, at 8:44 PM, Pablo Digonzelli wrote:
>
>> Hi all .
>>
>> i am new to squeak.
>> I designed a template a PDF Template document.
>> What I want if to fill the fields specified in that template with  
>> values from Squeak.
>> Is there any package to manipulate this PDF merging?.
>> May be in another smalltalk dialect?
>>
>> TIA
>> Pablo
>>
>>
>
>





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