PDF Question

John J. Lee jjl at pobox.com
Thu Nov 29 09:37:19 EST 2001


On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, David A McInnis wrote:
> I want to create a PDF file that contains merge fields.  The idea is to read
> the contents of the PDF file into a python string and substitute the merge
> fields with values.
>
> Is this possible?

IIRC PDF actually has features built-in to deal with this, which Reportlab
has support for.  PIDDLE can output PDF too, but I suppose it doesn't
support this merge facility.


John




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