[reportlab-users] Suggestions

[Tim Roberts]

Ted Shab wrote:

> I'm tasked with the following:

>

> a.  Open a PDF file

> b.  Find instances of Text that are labels (these will

> generally be aligned at 90 degrees counter-clockwise).

> c.  Make these instances into hyperlinks (label will

> remain the same, HREF will be a prepended constant

> plus the label as an argument).

>   


If you want these to be live hyperlinks, there's a lot more to it than
just changing the text.


> d.  There are perhaps 50 of these in the document

> (single page).  

> e.  Write the changes to the file or a copy thereof.

>

> Any chance someone can give me a hint or two on how/if

> ReportLab is able to do this type of thing, or is it

> maninly for generating from scratch rather than

> updating existing PDFs.

>   


As I understand it, ReportLab's commercial products can do this kind of
thing, taking a PDF apart and putting it back together.  The open source
library cannot.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.