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super news - cheers Rex!

I'll look into implementing livecycle. Any ideas on pricing for the
particular components I'd need? Looks costly.

Not sure about the pdfutils method - as its a magazine the pdfs are very
design-led and it may prove a nightmare reformatting them.

Gracias.

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:30 AM, rex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> Rich Wild wrote:
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> > Can I, with CF, read in the source pdf file, locate the bits of text in
> > question and add hyperlinks to them, before saving the altered pdf
> document
> > back out as a new pdf?
> >
> > There are thousands of links to be added, so it needs to be automated.
>
> YES!  With CF, you can read the source PDF file with DDX DocumentText.
> So you can parse through it and add hyperlinks to them, then CFDOCUMENT
> to a new PDF.  You lose formatting though and have to recreate and
> reformat the text to recreate the PDF.
>
> http://pdfutils.riaforge.org/ can help you get text from the PDF file
> with getText()
>
> If you have LiveCycle, this becomes easier as you can edit the PDF
> directly.  The DDX element LINKS is the tag that would create the link
> for you.  LiveCycle would be able to do this.
>
> See the livedocs for CFPDF at
>
> http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags_p-q_02.html#2922772
> under "Restricted DDX elements"
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