Mail Merge or Variable Data Processing (PDF) or PDF/VT support

Aspose.PDF Product Family
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Hi,

Are they are plans to support Mail Merging features as used by commercial printers using Variable Data Processing (PDF) with PDF/VT?

https://www.pdflib.com/knowledge-base/pdfvt/

https://www.pdflib.com/pdflib-cookbook/pdfvt/

Alternatively, if no full PDF/VT support is on the product roadmap, is it possible to replace standard text, i.e. {{address}} with other text whilst processing PDFs to do Mail merging as in Aspose.Words ([http://www.aspose.com/docs/display/wordsjava/Mail+Merge+using+‘Mustache’+Template+Syntax]) , or alternatively to replace it with PDF Form fields to use those for mail marging in other libraries/products.

Thanks,

Daniel

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Hi Daniel,

Thanks for contacting support.

Aspose.Pdf for .NET offers the feature to search particular text string inside PDF file and replace it with Text or form field. For more information, please visit

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Thanks Nayyer,


Trying to replace the text in PDF was my first approach, but unfortunately is doesn’t work. It only finds some of my {{FIELD}} place holders but then just stops.

I verified this by attempting to simply extract all text from the PDF but this failed also. I used the example code as per the documentation without any changes. It didn’t work.

I have now resorted to Aspose.Word Mailmerge and then save to PDF. Then reading the PDF with Aspose.PDF to add barcodes, N-Up, cropmarks etc.

Regards,
Daniel


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Hi Daniel,


Thanks for your feedback. It is good to know that you have managed to accomplish your requirements with the shared workflow.

However in reference to text replacement issue with Aspose.Pdf, we will appreciate it if you please share your sample code along with source document, so we will look into it and will guide you accordingly.

Best Regards,