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Editing PDF's in Python

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  • 09-04-2014 11:32pm
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    He Who Dares Wins
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    Is there an alternate way of doing this in Python than using ReportLab to create a new PDF from an already existing one? I am trying to insert some text onto a PDF similar to a certificate. Any help or information on the matter will be greatly appreciated.


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    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,791 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Not fully Pythonic, but if I was doing something like that I'd generate a PDF with just the text to be overlaid in the appropriate position, and then use the command-line pdftk tool (via subprocess) to combine it with the template PDF into the final one: 
    pdftk inserted-text.pdf background template.pdf output certificate.pdf


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