[CentOS] Mail Merge data to a pdf file by overlaying the data on the image
KevinO
kevin at kevino.org
Sat May 10 08:11:49 UTC 2014
On 05/09/2014 02:27 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> I am looking for a utility that I can use to do a mail merge of data to
> a pdf image file. The image file does not have any active fields, but
> will be just an image file. I would like to overlay names addresses
> etc.
>
> We currently do this with a pcl file by just overlaying the data with
> pcl print positions. However, in order to get the pcl file from an
> original pdf file we have to use gimp to convert the pdf to pcl file,
> and we always lose a little resolution. I was wondering if anyone knows
> of a utility to perform this function without first converting the image
> to a pcl file.
>
> Thanks,
>
This may seem like a round-a-bout way to do it; But, why not modify a Latex file
with the changes, then use a bit of Bash script to do the tex -> ps -> pdf ?
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KevinO
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