Re: Add Text to My PDF

[John McDermott <jjm -at- jkintl -dot- com>]

Jeremia Gardner wrote:
>Some co-workers of mine have an interest in adding textual labels to
>diagrams that are in .pdf format.

>Any opinions on the best and easiest way to add text to .pdfs?
>
>I am on digest, so direct responses would be much appreciated?

This is called PDF stamping and is often done via a script to 
"personalize" or serialize (number) PDF copies.  That is, if you have a 
case where you want to make copies unique and still preserve the 
document, you can "stamp" the pdf. You can google for "pdfstamp" or, if 
you have a perl programmer around, ask him/her to get Text::PDF (it's a 
perl thing) and show you how to use it.  It works from the command line 
and its free.  It is really simple and can be used to number hundreds of 
files in seconds...

--john

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