Hi, On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 09:31:14AM -0500, Robert S. Kissel wrote: > Question about pdfedit functionality: > > I currently am working on a project and wonder if I can use pdfedit to > help it along. > [...] > > The version of pdfedit I have deployed is under Cygwin, under Windoze, > and so, naturally, there's no hope of editing the Japanese strings > there--but it occurs to me that, because > of the complicated way Asian languages with big character sets are > implemented in PDF, a language in which big character sets are a bit > of an aftertthought, there might be no way to go about it, even if I > go through the effort of setting up some native UNIX system with > Japanese on it, and seeing if PDFEDIT might handle the Japanese > strings (by some miracle) there.
Unfortunately, PDFedit has some issues with proper character encoding so I doubt it will work. > > I wonder if anybody has any suggestions? It's a tricky business, > because the OCR process often gets a character quite wrong--and so you > sometimes don't even HAVE the character you need to put into the > string in one of the font subsets embedded in the PDF. I'm just > trying to think about approaches that don't involve me writing great > big programs to take apart the PDF and put it together again. I am sorry, but I am afraid that PDFedit will not help you much here. > > PDFEDIT would be the solution if I were dealing only with routine, > West-European, OCR'd text. Open up the PDF, find the string that > needs fixing, type in what's needed, save, ship, finished. West-European should work because there are no special characters. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers > to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, > should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database > without downtime or disruption > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _______________________________________________ > Pdfedit-support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support -- Michal Hocko ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Pdfedit-support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support
