From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 2 17:56:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2ADC106564A for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:56:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from btillman99@yahoo.com) Received: from web36508.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web36508.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.85.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94ED18FC0A for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2010 17:56:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 48815 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Jun 2010 17:56:24 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1275501384; bh=glWj2Hb1rTKPU7TTY3dtl+AR7ZyIorWZkdtcMjFVjkU=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=CQo1I6qvJrOB+1dx6reLiaErlN//gBb7FCkpu/xLeyawt9bZHMLZhIFjxpXlE39/GXJ4qjxudSKJnJXHxlpbzFp5o5EQanWX7+jh8wjMf1gQrMWrSGVRiwRA7+p6B61GWnZOoo8jiPD+9L2yB+brPtQ+8nie163+70qN/Runhnk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=mY8AhfGSqJk4rFzjS8uoTqdqzTKoo4QSnp2AkbnTUPq1FWE1Z3wxUiGEwOJXZ+hZRWIcerVuNYcpe/udK5xXVgJi2+P1V5MgMWHZqOAP9JjugTyf8nmLdJtUXrl/i0CsMIOAY5FEcRdxh8TzswNREFmVoRWtZW6cC9buYgSFWio=; Message-ID: <999254.57950.qm@web36508.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: Ic2BmEQVM1mM5csRU6shKjoIVogSiJkFz2zf0XmLNSBw_z0 ZTROGSukjMa_0vUoCq5FdiyMIIOUBsyHYD_GeHBYbKDtELROu.BCCmC.fgaJ dP3s67e4jrEwRjGKP5tCNBBza795u9qF5nnE1wbHJjJPlb60.bQ2C_xPE8mj 5hx_Ye4X6hX5nt5xWbOmkqtZpNuKpjeAhLpZOnXpcnZvujRYTXl8XIL7HKUd xrXEtM0JfTrUGjDn_p86O4xug1zyqOmmrrpJ6cb2hPkOIm8RkWhFopEt3Xz8 l0UpIh16VW9fbgA-- Received: from [98.242.233.74] by web36508.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:56:23 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/11.0.8 YahooMailWebService/0.8.103.269680 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 10:56:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Add watermark to PDF X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:56:24 -0000 Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 19:36:02 +0200 From: "C. P. Ghost" Subject: Re: Add watermark to PDF To: John Almberg Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: =A0=A0=A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3DISO-8859-1 On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:15 PM, John Almberg 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