sorry, but I forgot the mention that I understand how
to merge the PDFs.  I just need to figure out how to
trigger the pipeline so I can get the response for
merging.

--- Julian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks alot for the input.  Unfortunately, I have
> the
> a static PDF that needs to be merged with one
> dynamically created by a pipeline via XML
> (src)->XSLT
> (tranfromer)->FOP (serializer).  Also, I need to
> access this content from a request being handled by
> another servlet...not the Cocoon servlet.
> 
> The dilemma is how to trigger the pipeline to
> generate
> the content, then merge the output with a static
> PDF,
> and send to the outputstream.  I was thinking I
> could
> forward the request, but that would only take care
> of
> the first requirement.  I appreciate any
> suggestions.
> 
> Regards,
> Julian
> 
> --- Bertrand Delacretaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Le 20 oct. 05, à 06:43, Julian a écrit :
> > 
> > > ...I want to merge a static PDF into a PDF being
> > > generated via XSL:FO and the FOP serializer....
> > 
> > Merging PDFs is a pure binary operation, I don't
> > think any of the tools 
> > bundled with Cocoon will help with this.
> > 
> > A good tool that I use for such operations is
> pdftk,
> > 
> > http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/. It's a
> command-line
> > tool AFAIK, but 
> > with some scripting you should be able to get it
> to
> > do what you want.
> > 
> > -Bertrand
> > 
> >
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