Hi, Monks.

I have a problem when merging PDF documents. I need to import first page from many one page PDF documents into one result PDF.

I try PDF::API2, PDF::Reuse, CAM::PDF but nothing helps :-(. My main problem is importing barcode from source PDF (see example 1 33 kb, example 2 33 kb). My program got this pdfs from USPS site and i need to create single PDF from them.

PDF::API2 and CAM::PDF don't show barcode at all. PDF::Reuse show barcode only on first page :-( (see PDF::API2 result 53 kb, CAM::PDF result 54 kb, PDF::Reuse result 65 kb).

Here my code.

For PDF::API2:

use PDF::API2;

my $result_pdf = PDF::API2->new();
my $pdf = PDF::API2->open('label1.pdf');

my $page = $result_pdf->importpage($pdf, 1);
$pdf = PDF::API2->open('label3.pdf');
$page = $result_pdf->importpage($pdf, 1);

$result_pdf->saveas("pdfapi2_result.pdf");

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For CAM::PDF:

use CAM::PDF;

my $doc1 = CAM::PDF->new('label1.pdf') || die "$CAM::PDF::errstr\n";

my $doc2 = CAM::PDF->new('label3.pdf') || die "$CAM::PDF::errstr\n";

$doc1->appendPDF($doc2);
$doc1->clearAnnotations();

$doc1->cleanoutput('campdf_result.pdf');

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And for PDF::Reuse which works but only for first page:

use PDF::Reuse;

prFile('new.pdf');
prDoc( { file  => 'label3.pdf',
    first => 1, 
    last  => 1 });
prDoc( { file  => 'label1.pdf',
    first => 1, 
    last  => 1 });
prEnd();

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Could you explain why barcodes did't copy? What i must to do to copy them?

P.S. When i wrote this message i think about Javascript in the PDF. Maybe barcodes are creating by Javascript? And when i importing page from source file i'm importing Javascript but maybe this Javascript only generates barcode for the first page?

In reply to Problem importing page from PDF by Gangabass

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