From: Mike Lopke <reglopke@...>
Date: 2006-09-14T04:31:30+09:00
Subject: Re: PDF file manipulation

vasudevram wrote:
> Mike Lopke wrote:
>> I've looked at PDF::Writer, ruby FPDF, etc.
>>
>> Are there any ruby tools for manipulation of existing PDF files?  Php
>> has the fpdi extention.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>>
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> 
> If you can't find any Ruby tools, then one way out, though could take
> more time and be difficult, depending on your level of skill with
> writing Ruby extensions, would be to find a C or C++ lib and wrap it as
> a Ruby extension.
> 
> A simpler way than writing a Ruby extension, though not trivial either,
> could be to do XML-RPC calls to a lib wrapped as an XML-RPC server,
> written in another language that has PDF manipulation support. This
> would have some performance overhead though.
> 
> Vasudev Ram
> http://www.dancingbison.com

I've also considered doing a port of the fpdi from php to ruby.  A ruby 
version of the fpdf has already been done.  I've no idea really how much 
work that would be, though.  I just fishing a bit to see if there is any 
effort under way not to add this functionality.

Mike

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