Embedding PDF in PDF

Hello,
I am attempting to embed a page from one PDF into the content of a new PDF, much in the same way an EPS is embedd in a PostScript document.
Only one page from the source PDF can be embedded and it needs to be placed into a bounded location as an element on a new page.
My initial though/attempt is to use a reference xObject to do this.
Is this the best, simplest, most efficent or only method to achive this?
I have tried the xObject method without success but proabbly because I have not created the object correctly. Attached is a really simple example VC project (based on the original "hello world" code), maybe someone can see a simple(silly) mistake I have made. Am I on the right track?
TIA,
Stirling.

OK - so Postscript and EPS are programming languages while PDF is not. So it's not the same thing. But I understand the concept.
An XObject is correct - but a Form XObject NOT a reference XObject. If this is for Acrobat, and you want to do this the quick and easy way, then call over to the addWatermark() method in JavaScript and let it do all the heavy lifting for you. Or, for native plugin code in Acrobat, there is the AFPDFormFromPage() API that will also do the work of creating the necessary CosObj for you.
For PDFLibrary, you will need to do the work yourself as there isn't a high level API call.

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