Re: [SLUG] Edit PDF files

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sat Jan 21 2006 - 01:49:21 EST


Ron Youvan wrote:

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>
> My understanding is that a pdf file is merely a compressed ps file, so a
> special program would have to be developed to edt a compressed file without
> first uncompressing it.

Not true at all. I've been reading the PDF file spec put out by Adobe,
and they make a big deal of the fact that postscript and pdf are not the
same. They use the same "imaging model" or somesuch, but otherwise are
distinctly different.

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Paul M. Foster
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