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

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Mon, 17 Dec 2018 10:59:04 +0100 schrieb Osipov, Michael:

>>>> You could create a tfm and a type1 font from you font.

>>> That would be a whole new ground for me. I need to discuss this with our
>>> project lead who is proficient in LaTeX and can tell whether this is worth
>>> the effort or not.

>>    That honestly sounds like a considerably better technical solution in
>> the context that you’ve described.
 
> This is something I fully agree. The solution is straight forward and 
> clean. 

I'm not sure. It would work but at the end you are including a
non-unicode-font. 
I would include a representative string (1234567890abcd...)
somewhere outside the viewport, use this to identify the correct hex
numbers and then exchange the hex. 


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Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/