MidLifeXis has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

PDF:API2 used to have a method pdfimage that would allow you to grab a page of a PDF file and treat the return value like an image. This appears to no longer be viable.

What would be the new way to pull a page from one document, scale it, and place it into an existing page in another document? I have seen CAD::PDF, but I don't have it installed (yet), and would prefer not to have to load yet another PDF library. CAD::PDF does look useful, however, so I will be looking at it in the future.

--MidLifeXis

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Re: PDF::API2::pdfimage() - where did it go?
by snoopy (Curate) on May 08, 2007 at 23:10 UTC
    PDF::API2 now achieves the same result using two methods: importPageIntoForm and formimage. These share an intermediate form object. 
    #!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings; use strict;

use PDF::API2;

my $pdf = PDF::API2->new();

my $page = $pdf->page(0); # create new page
$page->mediabox(100, 100);

my $gfx = $page->gfx;

my $import_pdf = PDF::API2->open('overlay.pdf');

my $xoform =  $pdf->importPageIntoForm($import_pdf,
                                       my $_pagenum = 1);

$gfx->formimage($xoform,
                my $_x = 10,
                my $_y = 20,
                my $_scale = .5);

$pdf->saveas('test.pdf');

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