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Anonymous
September 27, 2010
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Editing Pdfs

  • September 27, 2010
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Hi,

I have looked up online for editing pdfs, but all I got is reading or writing pdfs, merging multiple pdf pages or removing pdf pages.

I have a pdf that has come content in it and now I want to add some other content into the existing pdf, somewhere in between the existing content.

How can we do this ?

Thanks

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    Correct answer Mike Chabot

    One idea is to have form fields in the PDF that you can populate, then

    flatten so the form fields don't show up. I did this many years ago

    using ActivePDF Toolkit. I'm not sure if the modern cfpdf tag makes

    this easier.

    Maybe you could treat the pages that have dynamic content in them

    differently. For example, if you have two pages with dynamic content

    and the rest is static, you can generate those two pages separately,

    using something like cfdocument or cfreport, and merge them with the

    rest of the PDF pages as a second step. I've done this before to add

    various user-specific charts and graphs to a professional looking PDF

    document.

    -Mike Chabot

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    Mike Chabot
    Inspiring
    September 28, 2010

    Do you mean adding content within an existing page, or adding a page

    between two other pages? Is it potentially complex content, or is it

    something simple like adding someone's name and the date in a blank

    space reserved for that information?

    -Mike Chabot

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    Anonymous
    September 28, 2010

    Hi,

    Yes, adding content to an existing page and the content is not so complex, its just few charecters of letters and numbers that need to be inserted in blank space.

    Thank you

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    Mike ChabotCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    September 28, 2010

    One idea is to have form fields in the PDF that you can populate, then

    flatten so the form fields don't show up. I did this many years ago

    using ActivePDF Toolkit. I'm not sure if the modern cfpdf tag makes

    this easier.

    Maybe you could treat the pages that have dynamic content in them

    differently. For example, if you have two pages with dynamic content

    and the rest is static, you can generate those two pages separately,

    using something like cfdocument or cfreport, and merge them with the

    rest of the PDF pages as a second step. I've done this before to add

    various user-specific charts and graphs to a professional looking PDF

    document.

    -Mike Chabot

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