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Posted to fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org by Saladin Sharif <al...@yahoo.com> on 2007/11/07 20:03:38 UTC
setting a pdf as the background of another pdf
Hi,
I have a general question. I have a pdf file for an application form. I don't know how this pdf was originally created, but it was given to us by the client.
Anyway, I would like to use XML-FO (with FOP) to set this pdf application form as the background for my new pdf document, and then overlay ontop that background with text. This way I can overlay the fields of the application form with data (i.e. populating the application form with data). I would like to know if this is something that is even possible with XML-FO (using FOP).
I was not sure if this way the right place to ask this question, or whether I should ask this question in the XML-FO mailing list.
Please let me know.
Thanks,
-Saladin
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Re: setting a pdf as the background of another pdf
Posted by Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch>.
Yes, the PDF plug-in is integrated like any other image implementation.
Jeremias Maerki
On 08.11.2007 11:34:28 Chris Bowditch wrote:
> Jeremias Maerki wrote:
>
> Hi Jeremias,
>
> > This is certainly the right place to ask this question. It's not about
> > XSL-FO in general, but about FOP.
> >
> > I suggest you look at the following Wiki page and go on from there:
> > http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/HowTo/EmbeddedPdf
>
> Interesting. I thought the PDF-in-PDF feature was for
> fo:external-graphic only and not background-image attribute. Can you
> confirm (since the Wiki says fo:external-graphic only) that
> background-image="foo/bar.pdf" will embed the elements of an existing
> PDF into the background?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
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Re: setting a pdf as the background of another pdf
Posted by Chris Bowditch <bo...@hotmail.com>.
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
Hi Jeremias,
> This is certainly the right place to ask this question. It's not about
> XSL-FO in general, but about FOP.
>
> I suggest you look at the following Wiki page and go on from there:
> http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/HowTo/EmbeddedPdf
Interesting. I thought the PDF-in-PDF feature was for
fo:external-graphic only and not background-image attribute. Can you
confirm (since the Wiki says fo:external-graphic only) that
background-image="foo/bar.pdf" will embed the elements of an existing
PDF into the background?
Thanks,
Chris
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Re: setting a pdf as the background of another pdf
Posted by Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch>.
This is certainly the right place to ask this question. It's not about
XSL-FO in general, but about FOP.
I suggest you look at the following Wiki page and go on from there:
http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/HowTo/EmbeddedPdf
Caveat: The feature is still somewhat experimental.
The other option is to simply create the form content with FOP and then
use a PDF post-processor [1] to stamp the form and the content together.
That's how it's been done up until now.
[1] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/resources.html#products-pdf
Jeremias Maerki
On 07.11.2007 20:03:38 Saladin Sharif wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a general question. I have a pdf file for an application form.
> I don't know how this pdf was originally created, but it was given to
> us by the client.
>
> Anyway, I would like to use XML-FO (with FOP) to set this pdf
> application form as the background for my new pdf document, and then
> overlay ontop that background with text. This way I can overlay the
> fields of the application form with data (i.e. populating the
> application form with data). I would like to know if this is something
> that is even possible with XML-FO (using FOP).
>
> I was not sure if this way the right place to ask this question, or
> whether I should ask this question in the XML-FO mailing list.
>
> Please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> -Saladin
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