PDF contents

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Sun Sep 25 14:46:27 EDT 2005


On 9/25/05 12:33 PM, "Ton Cardona" <toncardona at mac.com> wrote:

> I know it is possible to open a PDF document (Gordon Tillman showed how
> to do it a couple of weeks ago) with a set of scripts.
> 
> My question is:
> 
> could the contents of the pdf be somehow fetched and put into a field?

Well, as long as the PDF is not encrypted, it can be read by any text
editor, but it's like RTF or HTML; you need to extract it from all the
surrounding formatting codes.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com




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