Neighbour, thanks for your code! It's close to what I'm searching and maybe this will help me to get to what I want to accomplish! But maybe you can help me directly, too:

I'm trying to import an existing PDF page from file into a new PDF that is just beeing created with PDF::API2. I need to set the attribute "overprint" so the text above is printed over the background (without this attribute/option, the background is not printed behind the text so some printers leave white lines when printing the black ink).

The module ExtGState, Extended Graphics states, seems to have methods for this attribute, but I don't know how to say they have to be applied to the background image. Any suggestions?

In reply to Re^2: PDF::API2 and opacity by rainboxx
in thread PDF::API2 and opacity by Anonymous Monk

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