http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:22:54 +0000 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:01:30 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 11.01 360 www.quickpdf.org/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=843 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/forum_images/QPDF_Forum_Title.png http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/ http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/fix-a-wrong-pdf_topic843_post3881.html#3881 Author: chicks
Subject: 843
Posted: 26 Oct 07 at 6:01PM

When you edit anything in a PDF, you will most likely mess up the XREF table. Reader will try to fix the errors, but might not be able to.

You can use pdftk to do some simple edits. It has the capability of fixing corrupt XREFs when it saves. You'll need to have it uncompress streams in order to edit compressed text:

1. Uncompress wrong.pdf, save as wrong1.pdf
$ pdftk wrong.pdf output wrong1.pdf uncompress

2. Edit wrong1.pdf, make your changes
$ vi wrong1.pdf

3. Recompress and fix wrong1.pdf, save as right.pdf
$ pdftk wrong1.pdf output right.pdf compress

(I did this in a *nix environment, it will also work fine with Windows, so long as you use a binary editor).
]]> Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:01:30 +0000 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/fix-a-wrong-pdf_topic843_post3881.html#3881 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/fix-a-wrong-pdf_topic843_post3869.html#3869 Author: jabaltie
Subject: 843
Posted: 24 Oct 07 at 8:12AM

Hello !

I used QuickPDF to load a PDF  template and stuff field contents into it, generating a new PDF file (LoadFromFile, SetFormFieldValue , FlattenFormField and then SaveToFile).

So far , so good.

It happens that the PDF template was WRONG.

Now I need to modify those generated PDFs, in order to replace a very small string.

IOW, I need to replace ".DES." by ".PRO."  .

I tried to load the PDF into my editor, in binary mode and to replace the strings directly cause the editor allows a kind of binary or "raw" editing. It doesnt work.

What could I do ?

You can have a sample of the PDF here :

http://www.DES.online.unimep.br/au/pub/wrong.pdf

I thought about doing a very simple VBScript to modify it but, dont know how to start....

Thanks in advance 4 your help !




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