Btw it is non necessary to REPLACE the existing marker - because this can be made invisible (for example in ultra small font and white color) but I only have to PUT text or image at x,y corresponding to the marker.
I agree with Bruno that there should be a different approach, but our "designers" still have dozen of xls and word modules and furthermore won't never agree to use a design tool different from those they have and know. Giuseppe. mdesignz wrote: > > I had to do a similar thing for a large insurance company that had > thousands of PDFs created using Word, Quark, etc., and needed them > converted to fillable PDFs. > I had to find all of the text and graphics (mostly long horizontal > lines) and drop fields on top of them, and then build a UI component > to allow them to associate the > fields with stuff out of the database. It works well, but it's not > something terribly easy to do. I had to use iText and Apache's > PDFBox to pull it off. > You'll need to download the PDF spec and become familiar with how a > PDF is constructed. Probably a few weeks worth, but it's doable. > > > On Jun 15, 2009, at 2:52 AM, beppecosta wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> is there a way to scan a pdf for given string markers (like "#1", >> #2", or >> similar patterns) and get their x,y coordinates ? >> >> Step 2 would be to put some text or images or some other content >> right over >> these markers. >> >> Or - are there some other suggestions - to automate this process ? >> >> Thanks. >> Giuseppe. >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Put-Replace-text-at-x%2Cy-tp24030945p24030945.html >> Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial >> Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited >> royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing >> server and web deployment. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects >> _______________________________________________ >> iText-questions mailing list >> iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions >> >> Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php >> Check the site with examples before you ask questions: >> http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ >> You can also search the keywords list: >> http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ > > The human mind is an iterative processor, it never does anything right > the first time. What it does well is to make improvements on every > iteration (deMarco) > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php > Check the site with examples before you ask questions: > http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ > You can also search the keywords list: > http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Put-Replace-text-at-x%2Cy-tp24030945p24034094.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
