On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Roger Chinchilla <[email protected]
> wrote:

> I did try to find some additional libraries that might be able to help me
> but so far I haven't.
>
>
> Basically what I want to do is edit a PDF programmatically. Since I am
> already converting the PDF's to SWF I thought I might be able to use
> something that already existed in SWFTools. The PHP libraries I have found
> allow me to create a PDF, add things to the PDF but not find and
> edit/replace something. Or at least I haven't been able to find any
> references.
>
> I did find someone else trying to do the same thing via PDF but they didn't
> find the answer either -
> http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=111527
>
> How do I modify the text if I embed the fonts?
>

Using Pdftk, you can do whatever you want with the PDF.

>From the pdftk site:

[...]

Uncompress PDF Page Streams for Editing the PDF Code in a Text Editor
pdftk mydoc.pdf output mydoc.clear.pdf uncompress

[...]

Once you do that, you will be able to edit the text at liberty.

After you're done editting, compress the PDF.

Apologies for going off-topic earlier, I didn't mean it.

Many thanks,
Yousif

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