At 6:32 AM -0800 12/27/06, Brian Dunning wrote:
Let's say I have a complicated PDF document, like a Christmas card,
that was made in Illustrator -- too complicated to easily create
from scratch using PDFlib. Is there a way to use PHP make simple
text changes - like changing "Dear XXX" to "Dear John"? I've opened
the files with a text editor and cannot locate the simple text, it
appears to be encoded somehow. The PDF has no security or encryption
in it. Thanks....
Brian:
I'm not saying that there is/isn't a way to do this, but I tried and failed.
In my investigation, I found that the insides of a PDF file are not
conducive to a simple search and replace mechanism. The text is
encoded in some fashion that is not easy to decode and reassemble.
The solution I came up with was to combine the existing PDF file with
my coding and write over (on top of) the old to produce the new PDF
that I wanted. In your case, take your Christmas Card with a big
space where "xxx" appears and then write over that space with "John"
in your new code.
I wish someone would show me a simpler way to do this.
hth's
tedd
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