pearl kernel
Hello, i decided to make a thread for this one since i think its gonna be a pretty long one.... i've spent all day today trying to find a way to do this, the one thing i found is FPDI https://www.setasign.com/products/fpdi-pdf-parser/details/
Altought the F in FPDI stands for Free, its not free, atleast for merging PDF versions higher than 1.4 (today i also learned PDF files have versions). From the test PDFs that i have basically 90% of them are >v1.4, so the free version will not work. I really don't wanna buy this thing tho, because i was also able to find some alternatives that make me believe its possible to do it for free, but also that don't work.
Here are the packages:
1-2-3) These 3 don't mention anything about merging pdf higher than v1.5, and it gives me the FPDI error: https://github.com/Webklex/laravel-pdfmerger
https://packagist.org/packages/lynx39/lara-pdf-merger
https://github.com/DALTCORE/lara-pdf-merger
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This one mentions it does work with pdf versions above 1.4, but it was last updated in 2019, and it just straight up doesnt work when i try to install and use it.
https://github.com/GrofGraf/laravel-pdf-merger -
This one has an option to create it using TcpdiDriver in order to fix the version 1.5 issue, but that class is not even in the package files, and it was last updated in 2020:
https://github.com/hanneskod/libmergepdf -
This one claims it works on versions 1.5+ by using tcpdf/tcpdi/tcpdi_parser (again) but again, is doesnt work at all when installed https://github.com/despatates/lara-pdf-merger
So because of this reasearch, i tried looking for this TCPDF/TCPDI that i keep seeing mentioned in these packages, but i actually cant find any info about them, i just found some really old websites, and multiple of them so im not really sure which one is the real thing, but anyways i couldnt find any merge pdf options in those documentations.
I'm really stumped on what i tough would be a easy task, if anyone has any tips please let me know.
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