[oclug]pdflib

Vic Gedris vic at gedris.org
Wed Nov 27 14:35:18 EST 2002


On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Dave Gervais wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm looking to modify PDF documents depending on user input, and then to
> display them on the web using PHP.
> I know this is possible using pdflib and PDI (www.pdflib.org), but I was
> wondering if any of you know of a more open solution. I don't stand to
> make any money from this technology, so I can use pdflib for free, but I
> can't import existing PDF's without PDI, which is not free for personal
> use. If any of you know of something similar that is in the GPL camp, it
> would be great.

What about something that modifies a simpler source file (e.g.
postscript, text, latex, etc...?) and then converts that to PDF on the
fly using ps2pdf?

-Vic

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