On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 05:52:41PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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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