On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On 1/21/06, Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Ken Elliott wrote:
>>
>>>>> I have a PDF, I need to go into it and change some text,
>>>
>>> But I must ask - why can't you go to the application that was used to
>>> create the PDF and edit that, and re-export the PDF?
>>
>> Could be something like a dummy logo from the corporate offices for which
>> only a PDF is supplied.
>
> The question as it was put to me was "can you go into the text and change
> it to remove some info and add other info?" And the idea was to go into
> the PDF document and change those areas, the changes do not change
> the AMOUNT of text just some wording and direction, the product is aimed
> at amateur radio, we also want to do a commercial version, and the wording
> needs to be changed somewhat to reflect this.
Well, if you can get hold of a hex editor, you could try editing the strings
in the PDF, just don't change their *length* (pad them with spaces). They
might be ended by "\0". There also might be an alignment issue, so this
method isn't sure to work. If the text needs to be longer, sorry, no help
there. Abbreviate. Might not look so hot if the text is in a group of
text.
> Let us put this one to rest, I think it has been beat to the point it is
> now beyond the dead horse/roadkill stage, this sucker is now ground
> meat....
Sorry, that's my last word.
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