Note that doing so will create an invalid PDF :(. Please do NOT try to edit a PDF using text editors...
Leonard On Oct 7, 2007, at 11:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not exactly. It's not possible, except when it's possible. > > Here's an approach that works for the MyFirstTable example in the > iText tutorial. > > 1. Download and install Vim (This author used Vim 6.3). > > 2. Download and install Pdftk (This author used Pdftk 1.12), > i.e., copy pdftk.exe into the Vim plugin directory. > > 3. Download and install the Pdftk plugin in the Vim plugins > directory, i.e., copy pdftk.vim into the Vim plugin directory. > > 4. Open MyFirstTable.pdf with Vim. > > 5. Find the text "cell test2" in the second cell in the fourth > row of the table and delete the text. > > 6. Save the PDF as MyFirstTable_revised.pdf. > > 7. Open MyFirstTable_revised.pdf with Reader and see that the > text "cell test2" is now gone. > > Note that this procedure uses iText indirectly, as Pdftk is based > on iText. > > Cheers, > Bill Segraves > > -------------- Original message from Leonard Rosenthol > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -------------- > > > > No, it's not possible. > > > > Nor will you find any PDF library that will offer that due to the > way > > that PDF is structured. See the other current discussion about "how > > to read text on a page"... > > > > > > Leonard > > > > On Oct 6, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Sarath Dorbala wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am pretty new to PDF and iText. I have a situation where I need > > > to copy a page to another (new) page with no text from the first > > > page. For example, if i have a table in page 1, I need to copy > that > > > to a new page and but not text in that cell. I don't know if this > > > is possible in iText. > > > > > > Thank you. > <snip>< /BLOCK QUOTE> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a > browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
