Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 10:56:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Add watermark to PDF Message-ID: <999254.57950.qm@web36508.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 19:36:02 +0200 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> Subject: Re: Add watermark to PDF To: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: =A0=A0=A0 <AANLkTimkc8FF4mk8gu3VUt_Vq28Lej9Tw0raiwJ0UxqN@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3DISO-8859-1 On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:15 PM, John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> wrote: > So basically this script would have to read in the PDF and (ideally) a pl= ain > text file, and output a PDF with the plain text merged into the PDF as a > footer. Maybe this will help? =A0 http://www.reportlab.com/software/opensource/rl-toolkit/ There's even a FreeBSD port for it: =A0 print/py-reportlab2 > Any ideas, much appreciated. > > -- John -cpghost. I think the reportlab program is a bit overkill not to mention the huge lea= rning curve. I have used the port=20 =A0 =A0=A0=A0=A0 /usr/port/print/pdftk =A0 with some success to insert watermarks, merge files and rotate the pages. N= othing beats the real thing when working with PDF files and while Adobe Acr= obat Professional is not cheap, if your doing real work it's worth the inve= stment.=0A=0A=0A
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