And if you REALLY insist on doing it - you will need to start by reading ISO 32000 (the PDF standard) and all associated material to get a DEEP DEEP understanding of PDF. And after those couple of weeks of study, you can begin to think about how complex the problem is and how much work is involved...
-----Original Message----- From: 1T3XT BVBA [mailto:i...@1t3xt.info] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 11:54 PM To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Editing PDF using iText. Creating new APIs Op 26/04/2011 8:25, Naresh Chaurasia schreef: > I had been given a task of doing text replacement in pdf files Stop right there. PDF is not a format for editing. Ask the original source that was used to create the PDF, change that source, create a new PDF. If the PDF is a tagged PDF, you could convert the PDF to XML, change the XML and then create a new PDF from that XML as is done in the second edition of the book (chapter 15, the Moby Dick example), but this is a dead end too: the XML doesn't know anything about the style of the content. If what you're asking for were possible, there would already be a product for it. Do you know of any Adobe product that can do this? If not, don't bother to start coding. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
