Hi Monks,

I'm wanting to write a Perl script to:
- take user input (text),
- somehow merge that with a background image (maybe a TIFF), and
- save the result as a file for users to download and print.
(This is to replace a more manual (and easy to get wrong) method of doing an MS Word mail merge.)

To achieve this, I was thinking I'd use Perl's PDF::API2 module to create a PDF from the image and text.
I may be able to work out how to do that, but the main stumbling block I can see is, the font I need to use is "MT Script Bold", and it doesn't look as if that comes with PDF::API2, so any ideas how to make that font available to PDF::API2?  I've been searching the web for 30+ mins, including looking at the module docs, but I haven't got anywhere with it yet.

Apart from the font issue, do you see any issues with the above approach or can you suggest a better method of achieving my goals?

Thanks.
tel2

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