I have rolled a pending PDF::Reuse release which incorporates several methods which I wrote to accommodate the label and patroncard tools in Koha back in 2009. I had hoped these would be included in PDF::Reuse before now; however, they were not. The module appears to have been abandoned by the original author, and I was able to be listed as a co-maintainer.

I have tested these changes on Koha's current head, and they appear to work fine. This is an official call for testing these changes prior to my releasing the new version of PDF::Reuse.

Since these changes directly affect Koha, they have the potential to affect current and future stable installs. Below is a link to a dev release of PDF::Reuse which contains the proposed changes. Attached is a patch formatted against the head current at the time of this email. Please do the following:

1. Upgrade PDF::Reuse to 0.35_01.
2. Run Koha's non-DB dependent test suite. You should notice some non-fatal warnings about the redefinition of one or two subs in PDF::Reuse. This should not affect the functionality of the tools for the end user.
3. Verify the functionality of the related tools.
4. Apply the attached patch.
5. Re-run Koha's non-DB dependent test suite. You should note no warnings related to PDF::Reuse.
6. Re-verify the functionality of the related tools.
7. Reply to the list with any issue which arise.

After we're happy with the changes, I will submit the attached patch to Koha via normal channels for QA, etc.

This conversation will serve as QA for the proposed PDF::Reuse release. There are many things which could be different about the code in PDF::Reuse. This release is not the time to deal with these, so please keep it to show-stopping problems. There will be plenty of time to "fix" other things later. (That said, feel free to send along any thoughts directly to me.)

Kind Regards,
Chris