Can anyone tell me the set of control characters for a PDF file, and how to escape them? I have a (non-deflated (inflated?)) PDF document that I would like to edit the text in,
Okay, I think I found it. On page 15 of the PDF 1.7 spec (PDF link), it appears that the only characters I need to worry about are the parentheses and the backslash.
Sequence | Meaning --------------------------------------------- \n | LINE FEED (0Ah) (LF) \r | CARRIAGE RETURN (0Dh) (CR) \t | HORIZONTAL TAB (09h) (HT) \b | BACKSPACE (08h) (BS) \f | FORM FEED (FF) \( | LEFT PARENTHESIS (28h) \) | RIGHT PARENTHESIS (29h) \\ | REVERSE SOLIDUS (5Ch) (Backslash) \ffffd | Character code ffffd (octal)
Hopefully this was helpful to someone.