On Mar 2, 2009, at 4:59 PM, Andreas 'ac0v' Specht via RT wrote:
Show quoted text> Mon Mar 02 17:59:07 2009: Request 43790 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by ACID
> Queue: CAM-PDF
> Subject: (No subject given)
> Broken in: 1.52
> Severity: Normal
> Owner: Nobody
> Requestors: ac0v@sys-network.de
> Status: new
> Ticket <URL:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43790 >
>
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> changepagestring.pl doesn't work as expected. I try to replace some
> placeholders in the pdf in.pdf (see attached file). But nothing is
> replaced.
>
> perl c:\Perl\site\bin\changepagestring.pl in.pdf "\[% item %\]" "test"
> out.pdf
>
> Any Suggestions?
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
> <in.pdf>
I should document it better... The search is a heuristic and is error-
prone. The problem is that PDF is inherently graphic-oriented, so
text that appears together on the page is not necessarily grouped in
the document. Kerning and font styling really confuses it.
So, I'm afraid you're out of luck. I'm not aware of any open-source
tools that do a good job of this task (if you find one, please let me
know!)
