Stamping PDFs

I'm looking for a way to stamp PDF files with information that will
change based on the person requesting the file and was wondering if
anyone had any suggestions or could point me in the right direction.
I've googled my brains out and can't seem to find anything helpful for
me.

Thank you,
Craig Gardner

On Aug 14, 6:25 pm, "craig.s.gard...@gmail.com"
<craig.s.gard...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to stamp PDF files with information that will
> change based on the person requesting the file and was wondering if
> anyone had any suggestions or could point me in the right direction.
> I've googled my brains out and can't seem to find anything helpful for
> me.

Hmm, well, I haven't used it personally, but PHP seems to have a
pretty extensive, if only obtuse, set of functions to handle PDFs:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php

Or maybe that's not really what you're asking; perhaps your inquiry is
about what to stamp the data with? If thats the case, I guess I would
need to know more about what you're trying to ultimately achieve. Do
you have a system in place to authenticate users as it stands so far?

On Aug 14, 4:25 pm, "craig.s.gard...@gmail.com"
<craig.s.gard...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to stamp PDF files with information that will
> change based on the person requesting the file and was wondering if
> anyone had any suggestions or could point me in the right direction.
> I've googled my brains out and can't seem to find anything helpful for
> me.
>
> Thank you,
> Craig Gardner

FPDF for PDF work with PHP and FPDI for importing PDFs into FPDF.
Really easy to work with - I use it to for PHP to fill in PDF forms.

http://www.fpdf.org/
http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/

On Aug 14, 6:22 pm, burgermeiste...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hmm, well, I haven't used it personally, but PHP seems to have a
> pretty extensive, if only obtuse, set of functions to handle PDFs:
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php
>
> Or maybe that's not really what you're asking; perhaps your inquiry is
> about what to stamp the data with? If thats the case, I guess I would
> need to know more about what you're trying to ultimately achieve. Do
> you have a system in place to authenticate users as it stands so far?

I took a look at the built in PHP functions, but they don't appear to
have any way of editing (or importing) a PDF, only creating them from
scratch.


On Aug 14, 8:34 pm, la...@portcommodore.com wrote:
>
> FPDF for PDF work with PHP and FPDI for importing PDFs into FPDF.
> Really easy to work with - I use it to for PHP to fill in PDF forms.
>
> http://www.fpdf.org/http://www.setas...olutions/fpdi/

Thank you, I will definitely give those a look.

In article <1187152677.275035.238140@i38g2000prf.googlegroups .com>,
Craig.s.gardner@gmail.com wrote:
> I took a look at the built in PHP functions, but they don't appear to
> have any way of editing (or importing) a PDF, only creating them from
> scratch.

There's an additional library that uses the FPDF stuff which lets you do what
you're asking about.

I use it to individually stamp a pdf magazine that we publish, so yes, what
you're asking about can be done with it.

I googled and found it, can't remember where now. Rather busy at the moment,
but if you can't find it post another message and I'll have a look.

Regards
Mark

On Aug 14, 4:25 pm, "craig.s.gard...@gmail.com"
<craig.s.gard...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to stamp PDF files with information that will
> change based on the person requesting the file and was wondering if
> anyone had any suggestions or could point me in the right direction.
> I've googled my brains out and can't seem to find anything helpful for
> me.
>
> Thank you,
> Craig Gardner

FPDF and FPDI turned out to be exactly what I was looking for. Thank
you!