[tex-live] Making texts externally replaceable in PDFs, e.g. with sed(1)

[Zdenek Wagner]

Se my previous post, I have already suggested QPDF. I think there is
no good alternative.

Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
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so 15. 12. 2018 v 9:47 odesílatel Christoph Bersch <usenet at bersch.net> napsal:
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> Am 15.12.2018 9:23 vorm. schrieb Christoph Bersch <usenet at bersch.net>:
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> * The byte position and byte length of every pdf object is fixed and written to a global index (xref). So you could principally only make replacements of the same source and target byte length.
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> Writing this, I came across the qdf mode for qpdf, http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/files/qpdf-manual.html#ref.qdf . This rewrites a pdf file in a form which can be edited in a text editor, and the fixed with the fix-qpf script shipped with qpdf.
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> Even though you haven't control over the processing on your target system, I think that the details about the qdf mode, as described in the linked page, make the technical problems of editing pdf files clearer.
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> Christoph