PDF solutions?

[Amund Tveit]

"Steven D. Arnold" <stevena at neosynapse.net> writes:

> I'm looking for low- or no-cost solutions to the following PDF
> problems.
> 
> (1) I need to be able to replace form data in a PDF file with
> arbitrary strings.
> 
> (2) I need to be able to merge multiple PDF files together.
> 
> I have found several commercial solutions; I'm looking for open-source
> options.  I have looked at ReportLab and on the surface it doesn't
> appear to have ready-to-go functionality in this regard, but maybe I'm
> missing something.  Any solution that solves even one of these
> problems would be great.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Etymon PJ (www.etymon.com/pj/) is possibly an alternative for
manipulating pdf documents. (It is java-based, so jython may be the
way to go)

Amund
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