Paul M Foster wrote:
> Chuck Hast wrote:
>
>>
>> Folks,
>> Either it can not be done or no one is reading my text OR I am missing
>> something.
>
>
> You're getting alternate solutions in lieu of the fact that what you
> want to do cannot be done the way you want to do it. I've been reading
> the PDF spec and a couple of reasons come to mind. First, your text
> may not be actually "clear text" in the PDF. I have PDFs like this,
> where I know there's a string in there, but when I grep for the string
> it doesn't show up; it's obfuscated in some way. Second, objects in a
> PDF file (of which your text may be one) are generally indexed and
> have a specific length, specified when the PDF is created or modified.
> If you tamper with one of the objects and change its length, the whole
> PDF may become unuseable.
>
> So the answer is that there is no way to edit text in place in one
> step with an Open Source package. Adobe Acrobat for Windows, maybe.
> Otherwise, you're stuck with converting or somesuch.
>
I tip my hat to you on your use of the word "obfuscated." Very nice.
Definately verbose of you.
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