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

[Philip Taylor]

Fair enough — if it has to be accomplished using "sed" or similar, then emulating Adobe Acrobat Pro DC is clearly a non-starter.
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Osipov, Michael wrote:
> thanks for your quick reply, but neither of will work and suffers from conceptual misunderstanding.
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> Look closely at the Test.pdf, it is compressed. Cannot be processed with sed(1). Even if you decompress it, it contains a Type 1 font which has no /Encoding or /Ording. /FontFile3 references 10 0 obj which contains the entire font. This does not resemble my Unicode case at all.
> The content is in 5 0 obj:
>>  q 1 0 0 1 72 769.89 cm BT /F1 9.9626 Tf 19.925 -9.963 Td[(No)27(w)-332(is)-333(the)-334(time)-333(%DOCID%)-333(for)-334(all)-333(go)-28(o)-28(d)-333(men)-333(to)-334(come)-333(to)-333(the)-334(aid)-333(of)-333(the)-334(part)27(y)83(.)]TJ 211.584 -654.747 Td[(1)]TJ ET Q
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> As for Adobe Acrobat Pro DC: It is a fully-fledged PDF suite which knows the format best and operates on an abstract memory representation of the PDF while sed(1) does operate on pure bytes.
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> The operations this suite performing doing can only be achieved with a library like iText of PDFBox [1]. this isn't a route I really want to go. Especially because the post-processing on the target side is out of my hands at all.
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> Regards,
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> Michael
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> [1] https://stackoverflow.com/q/52027733/696632

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