[CentOS] Mail Merge data to a pdf file by overlaying the data on the image

[Harry Venema]

On 2014-05-09 23:27, 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.
> 

Have you tried pdftk? http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/


> Thanks,