Some of the people I've talked to, that seem to know CPAN pretty well, have given me the impression it isn't flexible enough to do what I'm trying to get it to do. Also, I've been hunting around trying to find out exactly what should be extracted from the JPEG to use in the PDF and can't find too much there either. I'm working with some information I've found from a small doc on the web that is helping slightly in the extraction of data from the JPEG. Hopefully that will lead to more info and getting the darn thing up and running. I find Adobe's documentation boring and clogged down with crap but I have referenced it a bunch of times.