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Over writing in a pdf

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2008-10-20 08:20:01
davebozy
Registered: Oct 20 2008
Posts: 2

I'm looking for a tool to identify overwriting.

I have a pdf that lists City, Specialty and doctor names however there are incidents when the specialty field is on top of the doctor's name. I’m looking for a way to find these occurrences with Adobe 8.0 Professional. Can anyone help?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.2, Windows
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2008-10-20 14:23:38
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thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
This certainly sounds like a PreFlight issue, but it's not in the profiles and I don't know of any tool that will specifically search the PDF for overlapping text. You should look at some of the print industry tools for PDF like PitStop, which might have this functionality.

If nothing else, you can write an Acrobat Script to search for overlapping text. There is a fucntion that returns the coordinates of each word on a page, this.getPageNthWordQuads().

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/[/url]

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The source for PDF Scripting Info
www.pdfscripting.com
Very Important - How to Debug Your Script

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