Question

I have an ebook in word that I convert to PDF before distributing to my clients. I’d like to dynamically insert their email address into all links in the ebook to allow them access to the members-only content on my site, and I’d like to do this on the fly, as part of the book download process.

I’ve briefly looked at http://us.php.net/pdf and FPDF, but I was wondering what specific technique I’d use to insert this data.

I was thinking I’d insert an email token string where I want the email address to go, and then use some function to update those tokens in the PDF document.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have php experience, but not with editing / generating pdf documents from php.

EDIT: Yes, this commercial script http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/setapdf-linkreplacer/ does exactly what I needed.

Answer 1

So far it’s looking like this is my best bet:

http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/setapdf-linkreplacer/

Trying an eval copy of it, will update post with results.