Hello,

I've seen a recent post about replacing all the appearences of a string in a PDF with another string using PdfContentEditor.replaceText(). I have the same problem: text doesn't get replaced and the quotes are replaced by question marks. Has this problem been solved?

My code is this:

PdfContentEditor pdfContent = new PdfContentEditor();
        try{
            pdfContent.bindPdf("c:\\Curves.pdf");
            pdfContent.replaceText("curve", "ZZZZZZZZ");
            pdfContent.save("c:\\ReplacedCurves.pdf");
        }catch(Exception ex){
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }

I would like to add that this feature is very important, I just haven't found any APIs on the web that do PDF text replacing properly.

Thank you,

Peergynt

Can you please also provide the Pdf and let us check it?

---

Tommy Wang
Lead Developer
Aspose Changsha Team
About Us
Contact Us

I have attached a very simple pdf file for which text replacing just doesn't work.

I'm trying to replace the string 'curve' with another string.

Peergynt

Hi,

I have checked the document you send and found some other problem. I will discuss this with the developers and let you know as soon as solution is found.

Thanks.

Adeel Ahmad
Support Developer
Aspose Changsha Team
http://www.aspose.com/Wiki/default.aspx/Aspose.Corporate/ContactChangsha.html

This bug has been fixed in hotfix 2.5.2.

---

Tommy Wang
Lead Developer
Aspose Changsha Team
About Us
Contact Us

I am running Pdf.Kit in evaluation mode and the text isn't being replaced. Was this fix applied for those running in eval mode? My company is considering purchasing this and text replacement is one of our core needs so I need to see this work before purchasing. Thanks.

Hi,

Thank you for considering Aspose.

Can you please send us your Pdf file and let us test this issue.

Thanks.

I have attached my sample file, created in LiveCycle Designer 8.0. I have also tried using replacement in the Aspose.Pdf.Kit.pdf file located in my "C:\Program Files\Aspose\Aspose.Pdf.Kit\Demos\Resources" directory.

The attached sample file also includes some form fields. I can populate the logo image and the textbox, but inline fields don't show up in the fields collection recognized by the pdf kit library. I also need to find a way to handle this.

Thanks.

Hi,

I have checked and able to reproduce the error. I will discuss this with the developers and we will let you know as soon as solution is found.

Thanks.

Thanks for looking into this. The project I am working on has a very tight deadline, what kind of turn around can be expected on this solution? With this functionality in place, we would definately buy an enterprise license. Thanks.

Hi,

I will ask the developer to give you an ETA soon.

Thank you for your patience.

Hi,

We will fix the null reference bug in next hotfix, which will be available in early next month.

Best Regards.

---

Georgie Yuan
Lead Developer
Aspose Changsha Team
About Us
Contact Us

My company is also considering purchasing your product PDF KIT only if text replacement is working. Does it work perfectly ? Can i see a demo ?

Thanks 

Hi,

Thank you for considering Aspose.

As you can see there are still some bugs in this feature but we are working to make it perfect. You can evaluate it first.

---

Tommy Wang
Lead Developer
Aspose Changsha Team
About Us
Contact Us

Hello,
I also was unable to get the Text Replace function working. Simply, nothing happend after calling the function and saving the file. The output file is actually created but when I open it, the replacement is not applied at all.
Additionaly, another problem start occuring unexpectivly. The problem is that after calling this function and saving the output file, the Adobe (Professional, v 7) is showing an error dialog box when I try to open the outputed file. An error is saying just: "Too few operands". And there is a blank page in the Adobe.

Could you please do something in order to fix this issues. It is realy important and I'm running out of time for finishing the project I'm working on. And this was really unexpected problem. The company is currently preparing to buy the product mostly because of this functionality, because it is very urgent and its realy unexpected the fact that this function does not work.

Thank You in advance