Re: PHP class or functions to manipulate PDF metadata?
| From: | tedd | Date: | Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:20:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP class or functions to manipulate PDF metadata? | ||
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At 10:06 AM +0100 4/6/09, Peter Ford wrote:
O. Lavell wrote: Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thank you in advance.That's a good way to put it. All the attempts I have done into opening up a PDF file and then trying to make sense of it and put it back together with something changed have been absolute failures. The algorithm used to make a PDF file reminds me of a replacement-type compression technique -- it's not easy to understand what was done. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.comSo many people ask about manipulating, editing and generally processing PDF files. In my experience, PDF is a write-once format - any manipulation should have been done in whatever source generated the PDF. I think of a PDF as being a piece of paper: if you want to change the content of a piece of paper it is usually best to chuck it away and start again...