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Raj · Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 1

Have anyone tried finding and replacing a string in a pdf using the pdfsharp libraries? Any help would be much appreciated
Raj

hood · Joined: 22 Jan 2007 Posts: 2

Hi.

have no ide about PDF so this might be a totaly wrong way to do it.

I needed a simple way to handle standart PDFforms. so i createde some PDF's with []tags in them. and this all went OK...... my problem is getting the data back to a pdfFile.

A tag could looks like this [CustomerName]

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PdfDocument pdfDoc = PdfReader.Open("C:/PDF/PdfContract.pdf", PdfDocumentOpenMode.Modify);

PdfContent pc = pdfDoc.Pages[0].Contents.CreateSingleContent();

string s = pc.Stream.ToString();

char[] c = { '[', ']' };
string[] sList = s.Split(c);

for (int i = 0; i < sList.Length; i++)
{
if (sList[i].Contains("CustomerName"))
{
sList[i] = CustomerObject.Name;
}
}

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But then im stuck. no matter what i do, i can't use the string to create a new pdfFile.

If this should be of any help to you, and you solv the last step of saving data again..Pleace post the solution. Or if you find a better way i would also be wery happy to see it Wink

Have a nice day
TheHood

SNV · Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 1