Compatibility with pypdf 5

[wyatt-wong]

I got this error when I execute:

python pypdf_strreplace.py --input pdfs/Inkscape.pdf

error.txt

[hoehermann]

Thank you for the report. Unfortunately, it does not happen on my machine. Please check your version of pypdf: python -c 'import pypdf ; print(pypdf.__version__) It should be 4.0.2.

[wyatt-wong]

python -c 'import pypdf ; print(pypdf.__version__)

Looks like your code need to update to support latest pypdf. I am using pypdf 5.1.0

python -c 'import pypdf ; print(pypdf.version)'
5.1.0

[hoehermann]

Should be working now with 6e37bb4.

[wyatt-wong]

Should be working now with 6e37bb4.

Thanks. I found it work now. But there is another problem.

The PDF file I used to replace text have size of 14,308,334 bytes. After replaced the text, I found the file size growth to 18,296,859 bytes which is about 28% increase in file size.

[hoehermann]

For editing the text, the tool needs to uncompress the data streams. I guess, they are not automatically compressed when writing the output file. You may try running the output through qpdf. qpdf's option compress-streams is enabled by default. This compression method is lossless.

[wyatt-wong]

For editing the text, the tool needs to uncompress the data streams. I guess, they are not automatically compressed when writing the output file. You may try running the output through qpdf. qpdf's option compress-streams is enabled by default. This compression method is lossless.

I have no idea what you are talking about qpdf. I just follow your sample command line below:

pypdf_strreplace.py --input mypdf.pdf --search "some value" --replace "another value" --output output.pdf

Am I responsible for compressing the modified data stream and output it to another PDF file by myself ? Or is that the job of your script to handle the compression of the modified data stream ?

[hoehermann]

I added the option --compress for you. Thanks to pypdf, this was trivial.