Is it possible to edit a PDF file directly?

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Published on 2011-06-22T00:00:25Z Indexed on 2011/06/22 0:25 UTC
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I have a PDF file that is produced as part of a help file compilation. There is always late breaking stuff which goes into a text file (e.g. "What's new in this version" type of stuff) and while Help and Manual allows you to include stuff from a text file it only works for the CHM output and not for the PDF.

I'm wondering if I can do it by generating a unique placeholder string instead and then using some tool (I may need to write one) to do a search and replace of that unique string with the contents of the late breaking info text file.

Is this feasible? Or will it break some sort of internal structure?

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