Not being a vim user, I was unable to validate this.
So that's a quite trick that it is using to decompress page content
streams for editing...
I stand corrected about it creating invalid PDFs - though I still
think it sets a bad precedent ;).
Leonard
On Oct 7, 2007, at 8:32 PM, William A. Segraves wrote:
Leonard, you're advice is usually much better quality.
I regret you did not try the procedure I outlined before you passed
judgement on it. If you had tried the procedure, I expect you would
have found it works just fine for the example that was used.
Readers interested in the procedure outlined below, despite
Leonard's advice, can consult Sid Steward's excellent Pdftk web
site, www.accesspdf.com, for the inspiration for the below procedure.
I hasten to add the Leonard is correct about editing a PDF damaging
it. That's why the Pdftk plugin for Vim is used, i.e., to repair
the damaged PDF. It's not a new idea, as it's been on Sid's site
since 11Feb2005, http://www.accesspdf.com/index.php?page=2.
Best regards,
Bill Segraves
----- Original Message -----
From: Leonard Rosenthol
To: Post all your questions about iText here
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Help with copying a page without text
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.
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