The main danger, from what I've seen, is when I replace existing text with *less* text. At a certain point, it corrupts the document - apparently there are checksums embedded in PDFs. Oddly, when I add more characters, I don't seem to reach any threshhold.
Anyway, I'm running on Solaris 8.5. It's not critical that I reduce the footprints on these PDFs, but it would be nice...
From: Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Steven McNeel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Re: Can I apply ASCII-85 and Flate filters to an existing PDF?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:32:51 -0400
At 09:18 AM 4/30/2004, Steven McNeel wrote:Thanks. No, I am not using iText to create my PDF. I'm using FOP, and I'm intentionally creating it without filters so I can later parse it.
What kind of parsing? You aren't trying to modify the file as if it were text, are you? Because even though it may look like it - it is NOT!
PDF is a structured binary file format.
But after parsing, I'd like to apply a Flate filter, and I need to do this on UNIX.
What flavor of Unix? Solaris? Linux? AIX? Other? What processor?
Leonard
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