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Editing PDF's in Python

He Who Dares Wins · 2014-04-09 22:32:14

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.

09-04-2014 10:32pm

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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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#2 10-04-2014 7:57am
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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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