Question about PDF manipulation

[shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com]

> Is there a combination of utlities (i.e. ImageMagick, tumble, etc.) that
> can automate this instead of having to recreate each PDF from scratch?

Your two best friends:

1.  Ghostscript.  It'll take PDF's as input and produce anything you want
(postscript, pnm, png, etc.) as output.

2.  The CPAN module PDF::API2.  For truly structured documents where you
want to manipulate the innards this is heaven.  Very nice object-oriented
interface.

I suspect Ghostscript will be of more immediate use because it sounds
like each PDF page has very little structure and is simply a big bitmap
image.

Tim.