I greet you wise Monks,

once more (it's been quite some time :D) I ask you for help.
My problem is the following: A few years ago someone in my company created .spl-(PCL) Files to archive some sort of bills. I now have the task of transforming the zipped .spls back into a .pdf

I'm stuck at the point where it comes to transforming the .spl files into a pdf. The problem is that the spl apparently has two pages (page1: layout page2: data) instead of one (layout + data).

My first idea was "hey that's similar to what you can do with layers in Gimp!" so I wanted to do just that (with perl)
I created two seperate tiffs with ghostscript but I found no way of mergin the two tiffs into one (similar to what happens if you use layers in Gimp or Photoshop).

Is something like this possible? I tried Image::Magick but it just makes one file but doesn't use the Layer-like thingy I want =(
If you have a hint that could help me, please tell me :)

Thanks in advance for your time,
Shinama

P.S. my english sucks, sorry for that ;(
EDIT SAYS: The problem has kinda been "resolved": I was unlucky enough to get some wrong tiffs/pcl-files... the big majority is apparently correct. It was decided that a combination/merging of the files isn't needed and because of that the problem solved itself :P I will try your tips & advices for myself as soon as I have the time for that. Thanks to everyvone who tried to help me :)
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