[Lazarus] Merging of PDF files

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Reinier Olislagers wrote:

> Perhaps you could try to call pdftk using TProcess? It's open source and
> multi platform (at least Windows and Linux).

I thought pdftk was a thin wrapper around a library... "pdftk uses a 
slightly modified iText Java library (http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net/) 
to read and write PDF. The author compiled this Java library using GCJ 
(http://gcc.gnu.org) so it could be linked with a front end written in 
C++.  The pdftk home page is http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/."

There'd probably be a problem calling the backend library, if it uses 
Java or C++ OO techniques, from FPC- I think somebody in the list 
commented on this a few days ago. I wonder whether it would be possible 
to modify the pdftk program to be a library with a single entry point, 
callable as a Pascal function?

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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