B4Print.com

Workflows => Enfocus => Topic started by: pspdfppdfxhd on December 05, 2016, 08:13:59 AM

Title: Find and replace
Post by: pspdfppdfxhd on December 05, 2016, 08:13:59 AM
Would anyone know if it's possible to do a find and replace text with pitstop?

For example, finding é and replacing it with e. (note accent on e).
Title: Re: Find and replace
Post by: Joe on December 05, 2016, 08:32:12 AM
Use I do believe it it is with an action list. I don't have Pitstop at home so I can't try it right now.
Title: Re: Find and replace
Post by: pspdfppdfxhd on December 05, 2016, 09:31:41 AM
Quote from: Joe on December 05, 2016, 08:32:12 AMUse I do believe it it is with an action list. I don't have Pitstop at home so I can't try it right now.
At home? Really? :drunk3:
Title: Re: Find and replace
Post by: Joe on December 05, 2016, 09:51:16 AM
Yes, I don't do Monday's. Tuesday-Friday for my work week.
Title: Re: Find and replace
Post by: pspdfppdfxhd on December 05, 2016, 10:18:08 AM
I'd like that..... seeing as I do Mon-Fri and  more often than not a Saturday or a Sunday.

 :drunk3:
Title: Re: Find and replace
Post by: Joe on December 05, 2016, 10:26:40 AM
I can't even remember the last Saturday or Sunday I worked.
Title: Re: Find and replace
Post by: Joe on December 05, 2016, 10:35:11 AM
And to answer your question take a look at this:

http://www.enfocus.com/manuals/ReferenceGuide/PP/11/enUS/en-us/task/ta_find_replace_text.html

This link may be a bit more up to date:

http://www.enfocus.com/manuals/ReferenceGuide/PP/13/enUS/en-us/common/ppr/task/ta_find_replace_text.html
Title: Re: Find and replace
Post by: DigiCorn on December 05, 2016, 05:35:08 PM
I agree with Joe. I've never had to do that in Pitstop, so I just looked at Global Changes/Action Lists and don't see a pre-programmed one. You may need to create one.
Title: Re: Find and replace
Post by: mattbeals on December 06, 2016, 01:35:02 AM
Iceni InFix should be able to. We were doing it at one point when we were looking at taking it on.
Title: Re: Find and replace
Post by: pspdfppdfxhd on December 06, 2016, 06:08:49 PM
It worked, but i could only get it to do one at a time, like find next, replace. Which was ok, because I wanted to see what was happening and there were not that many to replace anyway. Even though it was an 11000+ page pdf, if there were alot to replace, it could have become tedious.
Title: Re: Find and replace
Post by: abc on December 12, 2016, 04:55:25 AM
Hi all, we've talked about making an Action for find and replace, but we've resisted so far as we think it's potentially a really dangerous Action. The issue is the expectation that users would have.
When you take into account things like subset fonts and other problems around fonts in PDF, we think the manual approach is the best way.
What do you think, if enough people think it's something we should do, I'm open to do it?
Title: Re: Find and replace
Post by: mattbeals on December 12, 2016, 11:50:32 AM
Quote from: abc on December 12, 2016, 04:55:25 AMHi all, we've talked about making an Action for find and replace, but we've resisted so far as we think it's potentially a really dangerous Action. The issue is the expectation that users would have.
When you take into account things like subset fonts and other problems around fonts in PDF, we think the manual approach is the best way.
What do you think, if enough people think it's something we can do, I'm open to do it?

Manual, for all the reasons you mentioned.
Title: Re: Find and replace
Post by: pspdfppdfxhd on December 12, 2016, 06:45:52 PM
Yeah, I hear ya, it was nice to see what was going on, one change at a time, ya know, reflow and all. Would'nt trust it in a pdf for sure.
Title: Re: Find and replace
Post by: DigiCorn on December 12, 2016, 07:28:25 PM
Maybe...,

if there were an over-riding action that only allows it if the full font set is embedded (or forces you to embed the font prior to the onset of the process) and not an embedded subset, where the character may not be included..