Zack Wallace puts a collection of Windows Markdown editors through their paces, and comes away with a winner. Hi, I am in need of assistance, I have installed MP2 on my Win 7 x64, but whenever I launch it, it shows the splash screen and then there is the message: 'Mp2 has stopped working. Step3.如果是win10还需要安装一个组件 awesomiumv1.6.6sdkwin，否则会出现错误提示. Step4:最后重启MarkdownPad 2就可以用了!

Preface:

When it comes to writing documents (emails, blog posts, programming documentation, et cetera) I create the majority of my documents within Microsoft Word, MarkdownPad 2, and Scrivener (or some combination of these applications).

Conversely, (as a result) the majority of the documents I write are either saved in a Microsoft Word format or in a plain text format (since such formats are very convenient to me); however, occasionally I need to render a document as a PDF file (since PDF documents are typically considered the universal medium of conveying formatted information across multiple multimedia platforms quickly).

The Problem:

Now, while the process of PDF file creation is rather mundane and won't be discussed (noting I spent years working with LaTeX as a PDF file creator, and software like Microsoft Word or ABBYY FineReader can easily convert files into a PDF format); however, one of the more annoying attributes (of PDF file creation) that I occasionally encounter is the inadvertent inclusion of web hyperlinks (particularly within a web rendered document) that are (in my particular case) often times of a sensitive or non-pertinent nature that need to be removed prior to distributing.

Likewise, while I am sure that there are likely many open source tools available to achieve this particular objective; however, I typically don't have such tools readily available (as I need them so infrequently that there installation seems unmerited), thus (when such problems arise) I find myself torn between spending time researching tools (capable of performing my desired task) or (after careful evaluation of the overall programming difficulty) attempting to resolve my problem using Python programmatically.

The Solution:

Conversely, (and as it might be expected given my overall love of Python) I decided to write a simplistic Python script to sanitize hyperlinks (within a PDF file) that can be easily extended to perform more advance hyperlink sanitation actions (like URL replacement or selected URL removal).

Likewise, in order to obtain this objective, the following python code was created:

and such code can be easily modified to meet the demands of your particular application or used as is.

Important: it should be noted that the method I developed will only remove hyperlinks within a uncompressed PDF content stream!

For example, (if you open a PDF file within a text editor like notepad++) an uncompressed content stream might look like this:

while a compressed content stream might look like this:

Likewise, in the event that you need to sanitize a compressed PDF content stream, you will need to decompress the streams first (this is somewhat complex, but it can be done within python) prior to running my sanitization code and (given the overall added complexity compressed streams add) it might be better (and quicker) to seek out a open source tool to perform this task rather than implementing it within Python (although I might investigate this attribute in the near future).

Examples:

• Here is an Example of a Uncompressed PDF file with hyperlinks.
• Here is an Example of a Uncompressed PDF file after being processed by my Python script.
• Here is an Example of a Compressed PDF file that cannot be processed by my Python script currently.

Conclusion:

I found the sanitization of hyperlinks (within a PDF file) to be a relatively straightforward task for Python to handle (assuming uncompressed content streams are utilized within the PDF file being sanitized) and (overall) I also found the development of this particular script very enlightening (especially given how frequently the file format is utilized in practice).

Enjoy!

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