good library for pdf

2006-01-26 Thread Enrique Palomo Jiménez
Hi all, I want to take an existing pdf and add it a non-opaque watermark. I have tried it in postscript but postscript hava an opaque imaging model. Pdf allows it. I can do it with acrobat 6.0, but i need to add the watermark in batch mode or inside an application. I've found lowagie library for

Re: good library for pdf

2006-01-26 Thread Rob Cowie
Take a look at www.reportlab.org. The ReportLab library includes a graphics module that might well do what you need. I'm not sure at present if it allows one to set alpha-channels to achieve transparency. Also, if you have access to a mac running OS X 10.4, the Automator application has a prebuilt

Re: good library for pdf

2006-01-26 Thread Robin Becker
Rob Cowie wrote: > Take a look at www.reportlab.org. The ReportLab library includes a > graphics module that might well do what you need. I'm not sure at > present if it allows one to set alpha-channels to achieve transparency. > ReportLab allows one to set a transparent image colour mask which i

Re: good library for pdf

2006-01-26 Thread Steve Holden
Enrique Palomo Jiménez wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to take an existing pdf and add it a non-opaque watermark. > I have tried it in postscript but postscript hava an opaque imaging model. > Pdf allows it. I can do it with acrobat 6.0, but i need to add the watermark > in batch mode or inside an ap

Re: good library for pdf

2006-01-26 Thread Murali
Pulling out pages from existing PDF files can be done with Open Source stuff. The simplest would be pdftk (PDF Toolkit). The most fancy will be using latex and the pdfpages package together with pdflatex. - Murali -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: good library for pdf

2006-01-26 Thread David M. Cooke
"Murali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pulling out pages from existing PDF files can be done with Open Source > stuff. The simplest would be pdftk (PDF Toolkit). The most fancy will > be using latex and the pdfpages package together with pdflatex. > > - Murali There's also pyPDF, at http://pybrar