Editing an existing PDF

[twilson]

Yep, I'm VERY lost.

I've been reading these PDF functions, and have only gleaned a little information. I am looking to open an existing PDF (it's 1 page, always the same W x H), then write one line of text somewhere on the PDF, then display it.. that's it. Any thoughts??

Thanks in advance,
Tom

[AstroTeg]

I had looked into this. Trick is you have to have the PDF license to use those functions if I remember correctly and they weren't cheap (in my opinion).

There's PDF libraries for PHP out there, but I haven't found any that could open up an existing PDF and allow you to edit it. Although if you find something, let us know!

[twilson]

The PDFlib library and such functions are active on my server. I can create a new PDF using them and output it. I just cannot figure out how to open an existing one and drop a line of text on it.

It really doesn't mention anything about licensing, but I do own Acrobat... If anyone else has more information please let me know.

Thanks in advance,
Tom

[TheIceman5]

this rocks www.fpdf.org

[twilson]

Any other comments on this problem by chance?

Just a quick recap:

I am trying to open an existing PDF file and overlay a line of text, then output it, but I have no idea where to start! My PDFlib is installed because I copied/pasted the clock script from PHP.net and it printed the analog clock fine.

Please let me know if you have done this!

Thanks,
Tom