PDF file manipulation

[Mike Lopke]

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

 

[vasudevram]

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

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

 

[Mike Lopke]

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