05-24-2011
Text file + image/form/overlay file to PDF
Hi,
We have an app specific legacy environment running SCO Openserver 5.0.7. I need to be able to (1) scan a pre-existing form consisting of logo/boxes/lines/static text as an image [whatever format], (2) lay a print file from the app "on top of the image" and (3) output the "merge" as a PDF file.
Scanning the form would only be done once assuming no changes.
I think I see a path for how to do it using a PCL macro with PCL forms/overlay to an HP printer, but I can't connect the dots with a PDF as the goal. I've searched and read to the point that I've talked myself in circles (pcl2pdf, ghostscript, text2post, ps2pdf, etc) and confused myself. Can someone help point me in the right direction with a 1, 2, 3 of the workflow & (hopefully no-to-low cost) toolset to accomplish this?
Thanks,
David
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text::pdf::ttfont
Text::PDF::TTFont(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Text::PDF::TTFont(3pm)
NAME
Text::PDF::TTFont - Inherits from Text::PDF::Dict and represents a TrueType font within a PDF file.
DESCRIPTION
A font consists of two primary parts in a PDF file: the header and the font descriptor. Whilst two fonts may share font descriptors, they
will have their own header dictionaries including encoding and widhth information.
INSTANCE VARIABLES
There are no instance variables beyond the variables which directly correspond to entries in the appropriate PDF dictionaries.
METHODS
Text::PDF::TTFont->new($parent, $fontfname, $pdfname, %opts)
Creates a new font resource for the given fontfile. This includes the font descriptor and the font stream. The $pdfname is the name by
which this font resource will be known throught a particular PDF file.
All font resources are full PDF objects.
$t->width($text)
Measures the width of the given text according to the widths in the font
$t->trim($text, $len)
Trims the given text to the given length (in per mille em) returning the trimmed text
$t->out_text($text)
Indicates to the font that the text is to be output and returns the text to be output
$f->copy
Copies the font object excluding the name, widths and encoding, etc.
TITLE
Text::PDF::TTIOString - internal IO type handle for string output for font embedding. This code is ripped out of IO::Scalar, to save the
direct dependence for so little. See IO::Scalar for details
perl v5.8.8 2006-09-09 Text::PDF::TTFont(3pm)