Re: Re: PHP class or functions to manipulate PDF metadata?
| From: | O. Lavell | Date: | Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:23:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: PHP class or functions to manipulate PDF metadata? | ||
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tedd wrote:
[..]
> 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.
It's definitely voodoo. And I'm not adverse to a little voodoo myself,
but someone else's voodoo in which you aren't initiated always seems to
be so much more impenetrable...