in reply to PDF::Tk Background Image

From looking at the source of PDF::Tk, I think you should be able to use it like this (completely untested!) 
use PDF::Tk;
my $pdftk=PDF::Tk->new(pdftk=>'/usr/bin/pdftk');

...

# instead of filling @pdfLines from <POUT>
my $pdf_with_bg = ""; # to be filled by pdftk
my $pdf_in_memory;
{ local $/ = undef; $pdf_in_memory = <POUT>; } # whole file as one big
+ string

$pdftk->call_pdftk(\$pdf_in_memory, \$pdf_with_bg, 'background', '/pat
+h/to/background.pdf');

print "Content-Type: application/pdf\n";
print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=record.pdf\n\n";
print $pdf_with_bg;

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Re^2: PDF::Tk Background Image
by qwertywolf (Initiate) on Oct 25, 2016 at 16:35 UTC
    EEEEEEEEE!!!! THIS WORKS!!! OMG I AM SO HAPPY!!! Okay, there is just one issue and I hope it's a small one. My generated text, has a white background that I can't seem to make transparent because the PDF ignores all of my CSS. Any ideas?
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      Huh? Transparent background? What would you want to see through that?
      Or is it the "foreground" that is non-transparent? Then perhaps your first step (html2ps or ps2pdf) explicitly sets the background color to "white". Try to omit that.

      Update: from what I could google about html2ps, it defaults to a white background, so you'd have to modify your html2psrc-tst file.
      If you're doing this anyway, perhaps you can integrate the new background there, so that you eliminate the need for PDF::Tk …

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      I don't think PDF supports transparent backgrounds... Perhaps you want to make a .png file?
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        I am using html2ps so I think it's a ps file before it's a pdf when I merge it with a watermark.
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