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I'd like to be able to write/overlay text over an existing pdf document using PHP. What I am hoping to do is have a pdf document that can act as a template, and fill in the gaps by opening the template doc, overlaying the relevant text, and serving the result as a new document. The template document is a single page so page merging/manipulation is not necessary. Are there any free libraries that can do this? Anywhere I should look? Most searches I've done seem to deal with merging documents/adding pages, instead of overlaying content over an existing page. Thanks. *EDIT: Here is what I did: 1. Download FPDF 2. Download FPDI + FPDF_TPL from http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/downloads/ Here is some sample code for any future wanderers (adapted from the samples at www.setasign.de): <?php include('fpdf.php'); include('fpdi.php'); // initiate FPDI $pdf =& new FPDI(); // add a page $pdf->AddPage(); // set the sourcefile $pdf->setSourceFile('templatedoc.pdf'); // import page 1 $tplIdx = $pdf->importPage(1); // use the imported page as the template $pdf->useTemplate($tplIdx, 0, 0); // now write some text above the imported page $pdf->SetFont('Arial'); $pdf->SetTextColor(255,0,0); $pdf->SetXY(25, 25); $pdf->Write(0, "This is just a simple text"); $pdf->Output('newpdf.pdf', 'D'); ?>

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