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  • Re: How to remove a link in a PDF that is found in a thousand pages

    From Peter Flynn@21:1/5 to Andrew on Sun May 26 22:04:13 2024
    XPost: comp.text.pdf

    On 24/05/2024 01:04, Andrew wrote:
    I have a PDF with a link in it of the form:
    http://domain.com
    in a million places (usually at the top, bottom or middle of a page
    that is mostly empty - where all I want to do is delete it
    completely.

    I want to delete those links, and the only PDF editor I know of that
    will delete them easily is the Adobe Acrobat (writer) but it deletes
    them one by one. Yuck. I'm doing that, but is there a better way?

    I have in the past had good success by converting the document to
    Postscript, finding the pattern of the offending links, and running a
    stream editor, then converting back to PDF, eg

    pdf2ps foo.pdf | sed -e "s+http://domain.com++g" | ps2pdf >foo2.pdf

    Peter

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