• Substitute text in file .pdf with pdftk and sed

    From Sandro kensan@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 5 18:58:11 2017
    Hi,
    I have read this short howto: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9871585/how-to-find-and-replace-text-in-a-existing-pdf-file-with-pdftk-or-other-command

    Question stackoverflow:
    I have on each page of my PDF document a line with this string:
    %REPLACE%
    Which I'd like to find and replace with another string.

    Answer stackoverflow:
    You can try to modify content of your PDF as follows:
    1...Uncompress the text streams of PDF
    pdftk file.pdf output uncompressed.pdf uncompress

    2...Use sed to replace your text with another
    sed -e "s/ORIGINALSTRING/NEWSTRING/g" <uncompressed.pdf >modified.pdf

    3...If this attempt was successful, re-compress the PDF with pdftk
    pdftk modified.pdf output recompressed.pdf compress

    Note: This way is not successful every time, mainly due to font subsetting

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    The problem is how to get the .pdf without font subsetting. It is easy
    if I bought adobe product for pdf, but It is very expensive.

    Can anyone send me -kensan@kensan.it- or upload to someplace this file
    without font subsetting?

    http://www.kensan.it/tmp/Volantino.pdf

    Tanks a lot to everyones!

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