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Dear Leonard, Thanks for awesome help and your suggestions. Sorry to bother you again Sir. I you culd reply ASAP will be much helpfull to decide >>Wheter we should go for reading PDF or PostScript files/docs will be better. Please do send some code snippet if u have for reading the below mentioned things. I would really appreciate your effort and time for supporting this activity. Thanks a ton!! Khalid -- --------- Original Message --------- DATE: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 07:15:55 From: Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: >At 12:40 PM +0530 9/11/03, Khalid Abdul Hai wrote: >>1. Could you please elaborate WHAT DO you MEAN by 'original source' material. > > Word, WordPerfect, Illustrator, etc. > > When most folks want to do >search/replace, it is to fix the PDFs instead of >going back and fixing the original files and then >re-PDFing. > > >>* Can I read the PDF document programmatically. >>Means do I have any Adobe APIs to support this >>or we shall write the code to do this using >>Microsoft platform. > > On a Desktop machine, you can use COM to >talk to the full Acrobat. But that's not >licensed for server use, so for a server you need >to purchase/license a 3rd party component to do >it. Or, of course, you cuold write your own, but >I wouldn't recommend it. > > >>* We will have no. of templates for different >>operations to put the Art work on these >>templates. >>* So for each template we need to do this operation. >>a. Find bleed box. >>b. Verify dimensions of bleed box. >>c. Find and verify X,Y coordinates of bleed box. >>d. Retain this information to correlate for all templates. >>e. Verify center point of all boxes is the same. >>f. Verify final crop box is same - where included. >>g. Find dimension of crop box and determine >>difference between crop box and bleed box. > > OK - that's easy. > > >>h. Locate where color bar is and verify it�s outside of bleed box. >>i. Verify name for color bar is the same on all files: **.eps. >>j. Locate crop marks within bleed box but outside crop box. > > These are all quite difficult, since they >aren't "marked" in any way as being the color bar >and crop marks, thney are just drawing operations >like every other on the page. This means that >you will have to develop potentially complex >heuristics to make that determination. > > >>3. This is for Windows platform, using VB will be better option. >> > > There are no VB-compatible libraries that >offer access to the content of a PDF file (what >you would need for color bars and crop boxes). >There are some for C/C++ and for Java. > > If you needed to do this with VB, you >would have to write this yourself. > > >Leonard >-- >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Leonard Rosenthol <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Chief Technical Officer <http://www.pdfsages.com> >PDF Sages, Inc. 215-629-3700 (voice) > 215-629-0789 (fax) > ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html
