Delphi ActiveX Requires Chilkat v11.7.0+

What PDF Text Replacement Does Not Change: Metadata, Links, Form Fields

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TextReplace changes the page content only. A placeholder that also appears in the document's metadata (the Title, Author, Subject, Keywords, Creator or Producer), in a link's target URL, or in a form field's value is left as it is and reported in "notReplaced" with "where" saying which. The invoice template's title is "Invoice for {{customer}}" and its "View this invoice online" link points at a URL that holds {{customer}}. Delphi ActiveX

var
success: Integer;
pdf: TChilkatPdf;
json: TChilkatJsonObject;
jsonOut: TChilkatJsonObject;
i: Integer;
count_i: Integer;

begin
success := 0;

//  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
//  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

//  The PDF used in this example is available at invoice_template.pdf

pdf := TChilkatPdf.Create(Self);
success := pdf.LoadFile('qa_data/pdf/invoice_template.pdf');
if (success = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(pdf.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

json := TChilkatJsonObject.Create(Self);
json.UpdateString('placeholders.customer','Acme Corp');
//  (The other placeholders are left as they are for this example.)
json.UpdateString('unusedPlaceholders','keep');

jsonOut := TChilkatJsonObject.Create(Self);
success := pdf.TextReplace('apply',json.ControlInterface,jsonOut.ControlInterface);
if (success = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(pdf.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

Memo1.Lines.Add('In the page content, customer was replaced ' + IntToStr(jsonOut.IntOf('replacements[0].count')) + ' times.');

//  Where else the placeholder occurs, untouched:
i := 0;
count_i := jsonOut.SizeOfArray('notReplaced');
while i < count_i do
  begin
    jsonOut.I := i;
    Memo1.Lines.Add('not replaced: {{' + jsonOut.StringOf('notReplaced[i].field') + '}} in ' + jsonOut.StringOf('notReplaced[i].where'));
    i := i + 1;
  end;

success := pdf.WriteFile('qa_output/invoice_customer.pdf');
if (success = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(pdf.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

//  Sample output:

//  In the page content, customer was replaced 2 times.
//  not replaced: {{customer}} in metadata
//  not replaced: {{customer}} in linkTarget