MidLifeXis,

Thank you for your input!  This application needs to be entirely self-contained, however, and there is no way that I can demand that users install something as huge as OO.o -- or include it as part of my installation. There are actually smaller third-party tools (see, e.g., pdfforge.org) available out there for doing this, but I need to accomplish this within my own application.  Do you have any ideas for doing this entirely within Perl?

-Brian