Yea that can be a problem. A lot of applications compress the data in the PDF so it isn't always immediately available. You might try making the PDF without the text/placeholder and then open it in Acrobat pro and adding just that text. Since PDFs can be added to without rewriting the whole file you may get lucky and that part will be written in the clear.
Best regards, Chris Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Oct 17, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Guyren G Howe wrote: On Oct 17, 2008, at 7:48 AM, Chris Griffin wrote: > I have used a trick where I put some special sequence of characters in > the PDF where I want to substitute text. Then I used a program to find > and replace that text in the document. The downside is if there is > some position calculation that is done based on the length of the > text. I tried that, but the text I put in the pdf doesn't appear when I view it in a text editor. I tried various encodings — UTF8, UTF16 high and low. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
