Exactly what I wanted to avoid actually. You’re right it’s very tricky and 
almost impossible this way…
If others have better ideas, let me know.

Thank you Tilman


> Le 17 oct. 2018 à 18:25, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> Tricky, you'd have to work on the PDF page content stream. Open a file with 
> PDFDebugger to see what I mean. You would have to insert a color operator + 
> parameters at the right place. (and it is difficult to find)
> 
> Tilman
> 
> Am 17.10.2018 um 18:11 schrieb Confidential Confidential:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I’m trying to modify the color of a given string/word in PDF documents 
>> (automatically).
>> I have tried to render a blank rectangle and then render the string with the 
>> same font, style, size and position with the desired color.
>> 
>> This works partially : the method is not 100% reliable. For some documents 
>> and fonts, some glyphs fail to render.
>> 
>> So I’d like to use another technic : simply tell PDFBox to set the color of 
>> the glyphs without having to render them. As if I was opening a PDF editor, 
>> change the color and save.
>> 
>> Is there a way to do achieve this programatically ?
>> 
>> Thanks for your answers,
>> 
>> Best regards
>> 
>> 
> 
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