Search and replace text on an existing PDF

[lopb]

Hi,

I look into the FPDF web site and i didn't find an answer to that
question. I have a pdf file with content and format, also i have the
doc(from wich the pdf has been generated). What i need is to edit that
PDF and replace some strings with other strings. All this with php
like
<?
open(myfile.pdf);
pdfreplace("original string","new string");
?>
indian code :D
thanks

[Johannes Keßler]

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Hello,

well I've not done this but there is a way to read PDF documents:

http://davidwalsh.name/read-pdf-doc-file-php

So you need to read the PDF or even the doc file first, manipulate it and then
generate the PDF again.

Also there is fpdi:

http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/

regards,
johannes Ke�ler
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[C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/)]

Short answer is you can't.

Pdf is based on postscript - both are programming languages - NOT
markup languages. How would you write a program which inserts a CSS
file in **any** PHP file, regardless if it used any templating system
or any framework? Its just not practical.

You could try uncompressing the pdf file and do a text search replace
(have a google for pdftk) but this is only going to work if the string
your replacing is atomic within the PDF file and is not a pdf
function. Even if this works with test cases, the nature of PDF files
is that it will come back and bite you on the bum.

C.