Re: Modifying PDFs

You can't modify an existing PDF file. PDFs are closer to images then they are to text files. What you could to is have a template that generates a custom PDF for the user every time. But PDFs were not meant to be edited. Michael John Parker wrote: > Uwe wrote - > >The FDF function can be used for it. > > Could you please provide an example (or point me to documentation) > explaining how this would work. I looked into this back in PDFlib 2.0 > and I was told this was not possible. What I want to do is: > take file A.pdf from the webserver disk. > Write some text across it (ideally a transparent gif or similar > watermark like effect, but anything would be fine). > Serve it up with appropriate headers (content type, disposition etc) so > that the browser launches the acrobat reader. > > I checked the archives on this when I was first looking but may have > missed something since I gave up. This would be a big help. Thanks. > > Sincerely, > > John Parker > > -- > John Parker, Design Engineer, Snorkel International > Ph: 816/676-6419 Fax: 785/989-3556 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net