From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2008-03-28T10:18:48+09:00
Subject: Re: PDF::Reader streamed into PDF::Writer

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Brandon Sislow <bluetwin@bluetwin.com> wrote:
>  Does PDF::Reader integrate at all with PDF::Writer?
>
>  What I'm attempting to do is read a pdf file while writing it back out
>  in pdf with additional data added(i.e. form fields populated).
>
>  Essentially this is a premade template I want to dynamically populate.
>
>  My guess would be to map all the callbacks received from PDF::Reader
>  into an associated PDF::Writer function, but that would take massive
>  amounts of man-hours to complete.

Yes, it would. You *really* don't want to do this. If you need to do
this, look at stepping outside of Ruby or look at Ruby Cairo.

There has been discussion of *simplistic* PDFR to PDFW translation,
but it's exactly that: simplistic.

BTW ruby-forum is a poor-man's replication of the mailing list and
newsgroup interaction.

-austin
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