I am planning to do something conceptually simple: Find the <? and ?>
enclosing tags in a user designed pdf and replace it with input from a
database while maintaining kerning and tracking intact. Whatever is inside
<? ?> will be of a single font and single tracking.
Can this be done easily with the parser classes?
I ordered the book. I hope it has some good examples.
Your help is appreciated.
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:25 AM, 1T3XT BVBA <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wyatt Biker wrote:
> > So I have a PDF that I read the contents. I didnt make this PDF but I I
> > get in the text the following two escape characters: \222 and \036
>
> Those are indeed octals.
>
> > \222 seems to be the single quote (') and \036 seems to be something
> > with the letter (f)
>
> That's possible, although the actual glyphs depends on the encoding.
>
> > These codes appear in several places however the Acrobat Reader displays
> > it correctly. Here is some partial examples.
>
> OK, so there's no problem.
>
> > I thought these are supposed to be Ascii Octal codes but they don't
> > match ASCII. Is there a different way of decoding them?
>
> In your code snippet, I see: /T1_1 1 Tf
> /T1_1 is a reference to a font dictionary. You can find the object
> number of that font in the /Resources of the /Page dictionary.
> If you look at the font dictionary, you'll find the encoding that is
> needed, for example MacRomanEncoding, MacExpertEncoding,
> WinAnsiEncoding,...
>
> > Here is the code I use to read.
> >
> > PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(filein);
> > byte[] streamBytes = reader.getPageContent(1);
> > StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
> > String contentStream = new String(streamBytes);
>
> Are you going to parse the PDF syntax yourself?
> If so, how come you don't know about font dictionaries?
> Did you try the com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser classes?
> If so, did they generate the correct output?
>
>
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