[cl-pdf-devel] Embedding several PDF files in one document

[Marc Battyani]

"Arthur Lemmens" <alemmens at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Marc Battyani wrote:
>
> > If you want to include a pdf page, what you need is a Form XObject. But
if
> > you want to merge several pages then you probably need to parse the pdf
to
> > extract the pages.
>
> Ah, I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that.
>
> > You will need to parse the pdf files. I have a crude pdf file parser but
as
> > I didn't used it for some time it probably need some work to be
operational
> > again. I didn't published it because it's not portable as it uses the
parser
> > generator of Lispworks.
>
> I would be interested in that. I'm developing on Lispworks anyway,
> and portability is not my primary concern right now.

OK I will send it to you.

> (I've never used
> Lispworks' parser generator, by the way. Were you happy with it? If so,
> then one way to make your PDF-parser portable would be to write a portable
> version of Lispworks' generator.)

Yes, it works well. But in the PDF case the grammar is very simple and a
parser generator is overkill :)

Marc