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

I understand how to extract text using this module and that part works great. I can even manipulate the text to say what I want it to. I just can't figure out how to take the new text, put it where the old text was, then output the new text with the rest of the contents in the pdf file to a new file. Can anyone, please, show me an example code on how to do this? Basically, I've got a pdf form I'm trying to fill in, but none of the fields are marked in the pdf code as fields, SO, I'm extracting the text, adding in the values after the labels and then wanting to re-construct the form and save it. Please help! Thank you

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Re: Cam-PDF how to
by kcott (Archbishop) on Jul 06, 2011 at 11:57 UTC

    The documentation for CAM::PDF has: "Many example programs are included in this distribution to do useful tasks. See the bin subdirectory."

    At the top of that documentation page, you'll see "Chris Dolan > CAM-PDF-1.55 > CAM::PDF" - follow the CAM-PDF-1.55 link. Here you'll find a link to MANIFEST (which lists all the files in the bin directory) and, further down the page under Documentation, links to all the example programs. You can follow the Source link at the top of each example documentation page to see the code. Hopefully, you'll find one or more of these examples useful.

    For future reference, most (if not all) CPAN module pages follow this general format.

    -- Ken

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      Also, most of these programs in the ./bin subdirectory get installed when you install the module
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        I've looked through all the examples, that's how I got how to get the text and manipulate it, I'm just not seeing, which is different from it not being there, how to put the new text in where the old text was and keep the formatting the same before saving. can anyone be a little more specific in their pointing? thank you kindly
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Re: Cam-PDF how to
by tmaly (Monk) on Jul 06, 2011 at 12:58 UTC

    I had a similar problem with a pdf form.
    However, I could not get the CAM::PDF to work out for what I needed in this case. My solution was to print to PDF the form so that it became a flat image based pdf. I then used PDF::API2 to overlay the text/checks onto the form.

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      I'm still needing help with this. Could somebody pplleeaassee show me an example of putting new text in place of old text in a pdf file without losing formatting using either CAM::PDF or AP2. Thank you all very much!
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        I am still in dire need of help here. Can someone PLEASE give me an example of how to pull text out of a pdf file, change the text, then put it back, keeping the rest of the page formatting the same????
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Re: Cam-PDF how to
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 06, 2012 at 10:43 UTC
    Still there is lot of issues in CAM:PDF perl module while updating the information into the pdf its writing the new information in different font size and alignment problem also is there, please give some other version to overcome this problem.
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      Still there is lot of issues in CAM:PDF perl module while updating the information into the pdf its writing the new information in different font size and alignment problem also is there, please give some other version to overcome this problem.

      I hear the author/maintainer of CAM::PDF (not cliffrubinmusic) accepts money

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