[plug] [OT] PDF Conversions

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Fri Apr 8 17:01:07 WST 2005


On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:16 +0800, Timothy White wrote:

> Unfortunately this isn't an option as the forms are official and updates
> are released semi-regularly. Also, if I have to re-enter forms then it
> means that when it's finished I can't leave the project for someone else
> with out training them how to re-enter forms. At least if it was
> semi-automatic I could probably automate it using PHP and Perl on the
> server.

Sounds to me like you might want to rasterise the PDF to a TIFF, then
overlay the form fields based on position. Easy - you could do it with
GhostScript and (eg) the Python Imaging Library (or even imagemagick).

--
Craig Ringer




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