Re: Type on top of a PDF?

From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 17:50:10 EST

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    > > At the moment these are your only alternatives.
    >
    > It amazes me that nobody has identified this need
    > and filled it yet.

    Many have identified this need. It's a difficult and
    problematic problem space, and one that Adobe is very
    fierce about protecting, traditionally.
     
    > > Importing PDF will be no small feat.
    >
    > You think? There are already lots of way to render
    > PDF. Acrobat
    > itself will produce a PS file from the PDF, which
    > could then be read
    > by Ghostscript to produce some importable format
    > such as png, or tiff,
    > etc. Or GS could be used directly on the PDF,
    > although my experience
    > with it is that it's not quite perfect yet.

    Well, considering my last job was www.appligent.com
    and I'm currently doing contract work for
    www.pdfsages.com, I think I know a bit about the
    topic.

    Rasterizing the PDF to a PNG, and then importing the
    PNG is *trivial*. Getting meaningful structured layout
    out of a PDF's contents is much much harder (i.e.
    fonts, text, images, etc...). Sending PNGs to your
    printer sucks. PNGs of text is also a sub-optimal
    model for a word-processor to follow. A word-processor
    is a much different beast than a "typewriter with a
    monitor" model you've used.

    Dom

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