I understand what you mean as well. But the user will never leave excel or word. At present all the fields to fill in the page are blank, so there is no problem for scan and I have a simple function that prints a grid over the empty page with the x,y coordinates to help finding where tu put the text. But I was wondering if there are other ways "more professional".
Leonard Rosenthol-3 wrote: > > And what happens when the user selects the text to copy/paste? Or they do > a search on it and the "hidden" text all of a sudden appears - potentially > messing up their search :(. > > It's _NOT_ what PDF was designed for - you are fighting and uphill > battle... > > To do this project CORRECTLY is (easily) a 1-2 man year project. To do > something like what mdesignz suggests is probably half that (though he can > comment on how long it took him). > > Good luck! > > Leonard > > -----Original Message----- > From: beppecosta [mailto:beppeco...@yahoo.it] > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 8:52 AM > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Put-Replace text at x,y > > > 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. 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