Forum OpenACS Q&A: PDFLib - Print a watermark

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1: PDFLib - Print a watermark
Posted by cesar juarez on 05/04/06 12:51 AM
Hi, im using PDFLib and i want a print a watermark in my documents that saids "Confidencial", do somebody knows how i can do this???

thnx

Cesar

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2: Re: PDFLib - Print a watermark (response to 1)
Posted by Carl Robert Blesius on 05/04/06 07:29 PM
I am not familiar with PDFLib, but we have been generating pdf documents with OpenACS using ReportLab (http://www.reportlab.org/) and adding a graphic across the page is pretty straight forward. We have been creating 60+ page pdfs with graphical content (certificates of attendance) and the performance has been quite impressive.
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3: Re: PDFLib - Print a watermark (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 05/04/06 07:39 PM
Specifically we use tinyrml2pdf which is an xml based format that builds on the reportlab libraries. The specification to generate the PDF is in XML instead of python code so its easier to create at template.

http://openreport.org/index.py/static/page/trml2pdf

The latest tinyrml2pdf is included in the attendance package. The next step would be to extract this to it's own package. It's licensed under the LGPL.