Is there an easy way to just modify text content with VB

[Vicente_Vega@adobeforums.com]

Hello, I just want to change any given text in a PDF document programatically.
For instance, changing the language of the text within a PDF document to Spanish.
Is there a straight forward way to do this with VB (or other language), using a function or a call within the SDK ?

Thank you all!

[PDL@adobeforums.com]

This could be done with a C/C++ plug-in, but not with VB. And it certainly won't be trivial, especially if you expect to be able to convert with proper grammar since the text runs may not necessarily be in the order you see them on screen.

[Vicente_Vega@adobeforums.com]

Thank you so much, PDL.

Yes I though that.

But, Do you have any hint of how to do it (like the Function, Property or Call name) ?

Thanks again!

[Vicente_Vega@adobeforums.com]

Sorry for not explaining myself clearly.

This is an example of an easy text I want to replace
every time there is a "Date:" I want to replace it with "Fecha:"
but programatically since there are a lot of documents to change.
Thank you!

[malkyt8@adobeforums.com]

hi,

As PDL stated you could use as c/c++ plug-in but this would require you to find the word using a PDDocCreateWordFinder function ( there are similar functions so I would investigate to make sure you pick the most appropriate.

You can the use this to find the word you want to replace. To replace it you would then need to get a note of the location of the word using the PDWord functions. then get the PDEText object(s) (it may be more than one) that contains the word you want to replace and remove it.

Then add a new PDText object at the location stated above with the new text that you want, you could get most of the formatting information from the original object.

AS you can see this is not a straight forward change to make.

HTH

Malky