Re: Re: Replacing text in a PDF file

Not at all, where did you get that idea from? (Try looking at one in a normal editor, its just a description language similar to postscript)

Update: Apparently not quite true, though I've never seen one with binary data in yet..

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Re: Re: Re: Replacing text in a PDF file by benn (Vicar) on Jun 18, 2003 at 11:33 UTC
...some of it is, but the default for most apps is to compress the text/graphic streams (page description etc. seems to be left alone). It would seem though, that you can switch this off in some PDF-creation tools (eg Illustrator, apparently), leaving plain-text strings in the file suitable for simple regex-ing. Cheers,Ben.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Replacing text in a PDF file by CountZero (Bishop) on Jun 18, 2003 at 20:06 UTC
Well, that's exactly what I did: the ones that I looked at did not have any recognizable text. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]