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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of mahmoudi ould abdel vetah
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 3:13 PM
> To: Post all your questions about iText here
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] modify pdf font
>
> thank's for your helps.
>
> i have some pdf generated by using apache/fop but serching
> terms is not possible due to the used font. and i'm looking
> for a tool or method in order to activate "search". my first
Changing the font won't help you. If you can't cut and paste from the
PDF then OCR is the only way that it will be searchable.
Paulo
> idea is to change their font in another one which allow
> "searching terms" and now that i know it's possible with
> itext (perhaps it will be very hard?) i will have a look to
> this subject
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.lib.itext.general/25531.
>
>
> thank's
>
>
> 2006/10/11, Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> At 2:30 PM +0200 10/11/06, mahmoudi ould abdel vetah wrote:
> >I'm new to itext and I want to know if it's possible
> to read a pdf
> >file in order to change only his font? and so have a
> new pdf (the
> >same) with the a font.
>
> It's possible - but it will require that you
> understand low
> level PDF internals.
>
> ALSO, you should be aware that since PDF is not a
> "reflowable" format - font changes will probably NOT
> look like you'd
> expect due to the fact that things won't move around on
> the page (or
> pages).
>
>
> Leonard
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