Hi Markus, a little explanation what goes on here:
1. You text strings are encoded as pdf hex strings 2. the PDF uses a encoding map So in order to get to the string you need to look at the hex parts of the string and look up the individual parts in the encoding map for the corresponding font which is used for the text Example from the first page of your PDF /F409 35 Tf 1 0 0 -1 170.59300232 240.93499756 Tm [<00030004000500010006> -7 <000700080009000A000B>] TJ This means that the font used is F409. The first hex sequence is 0003. That corresponds to character map <0003> <003c> which means that 0003 should be represented using the unicode character 0003c which is the LESS-THAN SIGN (<) …. So in order to come up with a solution one would need to combine the code used e.g. for ExtractText and combine that with the ReplaceString example. Unfortunately as can be seen by the description above the ReplaceString example is overly simplistic and only works in certain conditions. As the PDF you have is being produced using Apache fop couldn't you handle the replacement in the pdf generation side? Would be much easier. BR Maruan Sahyoun Am 17.05.2013 um 13:39 schrieb Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]>: > Hi Markus, > > can't look at it atm. Will get back to it later today > > BR > Maruan > > > Am 17.05.2013 um 13:02 schrieb <[email protected]>: > >> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9_jmweC39sxQTJycGNKdVVPWVk/edit?usp=sharing >> have a look at the log-File >> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: Maruan Sahyoun [mailto:[email protected]] >> Gesendet: Freitag, 17. Mai 2013 12:58 >> An: [email protected] >> Betreff: Re: String replace failed >> >> That's not easy :-) >> >> You wrote " . parser returned a unreadable string . " which is the string >> you are getting? >> >> BR >> Maruan >> >> >> Am 17.05.2013 um 12:37 schrieb [email protected]: >> >>> My target is to replace ##VERSION## with "Release 9.8.3.4 (12th April 2013)" >>> It's on Page 3. >>> >>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >>> Von: Maruan Sahyoun [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Gesendet: Freitag, 17. Mai 2013 12:33 >>> An: [email protected] >>> Betreff: Re: String replace failed >>> >>> fine, I can extract the text. Could you describe what you are doing? E.g. >>> which text would you like to replace? Do you have a sample code snippet to >>> verify? Do you receive an error? >>> >>> BR >>> Maruan Sahyoun >>> >>> Am 17.05.2013 um 12:28 schrieb [email protected]: >>> >>>> OK.... here it is >>>> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9_jmweC39sxbmp2OXMtaXFTVG8/edit?usp=sharing >>>> >>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >>>> Von: Maruan Sahyoun [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> Gesendet: Freitag, 17. Mai 2013 12:20 >>>> An: [email protected] >>>> Betreff: Re: String replace failed >>>> >>>> Hi Markus, >>>> >>>> No - the mailing list doesn't allow them. Could you upload the file >>>> somewhere so we can download it? >>>> >>>> BR >>>> Maruan Sahyoun >>>> >>>> Am 17.05.2013 um 12:09 schrieb <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>>> Sorry, maybe our Mail-Gateway removes attachments >>>>> >>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >>>>> Von: Maruan Sahyoun [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>> Gesendet: Freitag, 17. Mai 2013 11:59 >>>>> An: [email protected] >>>>> Betreff: Re: String replace failed >>>>> >>>>> Hi Markus, >>>>> >>>>> could you be a little more specific? Maybe with a sample PDF and some >>>>> code? Replacing a string in a pdf can be much more complex than the >>>>> ReplaceString example suggests. >>>>> >>>>> BR >>>>> Maruan Sahyoun >>>>> >>>>> Am 17.05.2013 um 11:41 schrieb <[email protected]>: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I tried to use the String replace example, but the parser returned a >>>>>> unreadable string. >>>>>> I use the java code like in the example. >>>>>> >>>>>> Best regards >>>>>> >>>>>> Markus >>
