That's why they decode it with qpdf and re-encode it again afterwards, so qpdf t...

gpvos on Sept 4, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand (2...

That's why they decode it with qpdf and re-encode it again afterwards, so qpdf takes care of that. qpdf reconstructs the original PDF structure, and I think it even tries to keep the object numbers the same, but the offsets are recalculated completely.