Hi, > Am 29.03.2016 um 20:46 schrieb Kevin Ternes <[email protected]>: > > Maruan and Tilman, > I think you have answered my question--that I am basically out of luck. > I already ran one through the usual PDF-Tools Debugger but it did not tell me > anything that I thought was useful. I also tried looking at the PDF under > Acrobat's preflight. > > But here is the use case: > I have a large number of PDF "templates" that in our usual business process, > we use PDFBox to load, set form field values, add images, merge, flatten, > protect, . . . > > However, it turns out that the specification for many of these templates has > changed so that a piece of text needs to be moved slightly up, a cm to the > left and have the font size changed. Then there are some places where > someone drew lines around hundreds of form checkboxes!!! So while I'm at it > I'd like to delete those lines and set the form field widgets to have a > border. > > I wanted to write a quick command line program to do this. > I estimate that to do this one-pdf-at-a-time would take 10-20 hours. That > would not be a problem except that we don't have an intern. > > Any suggestions appreciated.
Would you be able to share a PDF to take a closer look? BR Maruan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Maruan Sahyoun [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 1:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How to manipulate a pdf object > > Hi, > >> Am 29.03.2016 um 19:54 schrieb Kevin Ternes <[email protected]>: >> >> I have successfully updated form widgets on pre-existing PDFs. >> But what about ordinary non-form objects like a box of text? I can add NEW >> objects to the PDPageContentStream. >> But how do I even get a reference to an existing object? > > What is it that you are trying to achieve? You can parse an existing content > stream and look for individual tokens. But there is no guarantee that, what > your are calling a box of text, is treated like that in the PDF as there is > no such concept. E.g. individual lines, word, characters forming a word ... > could be placed individually in different operations. It even might not be > text but a vector or bitmap image. Your best bet is to look into the content > using the PDFDebugger and see if you can identify the parts you are looking > for. > > Maybe you can elaborate a little more on your use case. > > BR > Maruan > >> Viewing the document in Acrobat does not give me a clue as to what the >> object might even be called. >> >> PDFBox-2.0.0 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
