[ANN] Release 9.0 DP 1

[Ben Rubinstein]

Could you output the annotations as PDF, and shell out to the command-line 
version of PDFtk to overlay your annotation PDF on the original PDF?

(Disclaimer: I've not done this myself...)


On 22/10/2016 22:31, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Monte Goulding <monte at appisle.net> wrote:
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>> You could use XPDF to either:
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>> - extract PDF text and print from LC fields
>> - extract page images and print those
>>
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> I've been using xpdf and similar for decades for various purposes.
>
> But what I need to be able to do is take the "official" pdf, put it on the
> screen, place fields & buttons on it to fill it out, work magic with those,
> and then send *that* as an output--in a way that there is no detectable
> variance between the original pdf and what Iput out, other than the extra
> information.
>
> The closest way that I've conceived so far that livecode could possibly do
> something close is to turn individual pdf pages pages into png or jpg,
> stick that in the background, hide it for export, and then use a script to,
> page by page, merge my output with the original pdf, and then assemble
> those.
>
> There are lots of things thatch go wrong in those last two pages of
> manipulations, as well as getting the alignment right being a nightmare.
>  (if pdfs were as standardized as we like to believe, the alignment would
> be trivial--but they're not).
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