From: David Bear (David.Bear@asu.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 18:45:54 EST
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 05:52:41PM -0500, abiword@interlinx.bc.ca wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 05:41:59PM -0500, Mark Gilbert wrote:
> >
> > In theory the best way (and an easy one) would be to convert
> > (transparently) the pdf to a real format, allow editing, and on save,
> > convert back.
>
> I don't even care to create a PDF out of the result so much as just
> print it. But if it can be printed, making a PDF would be a small
> step.
I think this can be said to be 'impossible' -- pdf is a variant of
compressed postscript. postscript is a one way ticket. Last I
remember having a conversation with someone on the postscript
newsgroup there's nothing that can reliable extract meaningfull
structure from a postscript doc. It may be that some parts may be
extractable -- you may be able to extract just textual elements. But
you will likely loosing even paragraph formating..
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