There seem to be a growing plethora of Perl modules for creating and manipulating PDF files. PDF::API2 is 'The Next Generation' of Text::PDF::API which initially provided a nice API around the Text::PDF::* modules created by Martin Hosken. Features: - Works with more than one PDF file open at once - It presents a object-oriented API to the user - Supports the 14 base PDF Core Fonts - Supports TrueType fonts - Supports Adobe-Type1 Fonts (pfb/pfa/afm) - Supports native Embedding of bitmap images (jpeg, ppm, png,gif) - Supports modification of existing pdfs and import/cloning of pages WWW: https://metacpan.org/release/PDF-API2