Replace text string with Text Form Field

Aspose.PDF Product Family
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We are currently using the Aspose.Total libraries to generate Microsoft Word documents which we convert to PDF using a non-Aspose PDF application. We now have a requirement to edit the PDF after the conversion in order to replace a text string with a Text Form Field.

For example, the PDF converted Word document might contain the string {{REPLACE}} and we would need to put a Text Form Field into the PDF at that location.

It looks like PDF.Kit has a method to insert the Text Field but I’m not sure how to locate the text string {{REPLACE}} in order to replace it.

Do you have any suggestions on the best approach to do this?

Thanks
Chris

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Hi Chris,

Sorry for that this feature is not yet supported. We will try to implement the interface of getting the location information of a string, but that would not be available in short time.

Thanks,

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Is there any other way that we could achieve this save effect? Perhaps embedding an image in the Word document that would be converted to PDF? Maybe a bookmark?

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Hi, <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Could you please elaborate your requirement so that appropriate solution could be provided.

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Hi Chris,

We have no solution to replace text or image with form field on existing PDF. You can try add the form in Word and convert it to PDF using Aspose.Words + Aspose.Pdf. Please set SaveOptions.PdfExportFormFieldsAsText to false.