Re: Globally change URL path in PDF
Re: Globally change URL path in PDF
- Subject: Re: Globally change URL path in PDF
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:34:18 -0400
I think Adobe Acrobat may be scriptable. Of course, it's not free.
The problem with free PDF tools is they tend to be limited in the
documents they can handle successfully; it's easy to find PDF's that
cause them to blow up.
One option is the Perl module CAM::PDF, which comes with an example
program showing how to use the library which does a global search and
replace on a pdf doc.
First, run "sudo cpan CAM::PDF" from the Terminal to install the
module. then you can just do
/usr/local/bin/changepdfstring.pl oldfile.pdf oldstring newstring newfile.pdf
Worth a shot anyway.
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Nigel Heinsius <email@hidden> wrote:
> I have a 15 page PDF full of link URLs that point to the same directory folder on a web server.
>
> My client has just moved this folder to another location and deleted the old one at the old location.
>
> Is there any way to Applescript the process of globally changing every path of the URLs contained in my document? I looked at the structure of the PDF in script debugger and it appears that the annotation link property is not writable.
>
> Am I missing something? Has anyone done this before?
>
> Nigel Heinsius
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