Dear Monks,

I am using Image::Magick to annotate some PDFs. 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Image::Magick;

my $pdf = Image::Magick->new;
$pdf->Read("foo.pdf");
$pdf->Annotate( font => 'Times',  pointsize => 12, fill => 'red', 
                text => "Wahoo!",  undercolor => 'white', 
                x => 40, y => 20 );
$pdf->Write("bar.pdf");

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This works fine, and places a nice red "Wahoo!" in the upper left corner of my PDFs. The problem is that ImageMagick seems rasterize the entire PDF in order to do this, and the resulting PDF is of very poor resolution. I can fix this by calling $pdf->Resample, but the main problem is that the rasterized PDF loses all of its text data, making it impossible to search in or edit. So I need a way to add text to PDFs quickly, but preserve the text data (and preferably not murder the resolution.)

Thanks!

friedo

In reply to Better way to add text to PDFs? by friedo

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