On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Oliver Buerschaper<oliver.buerscha...@mpq.mpg.de> wrote: > Dear list, > > I'd like to perform some basic PDF editing by hand ... can someone point me > to a good source of introductory material to get me started? pdf spec. www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf xpdf sources
> > For example, I'd like to remove a text stamp from a given file but also > learn something about PDF itself along the way ... if there's some open > source editing tool that might help me understand bits and pieces of PDF I > wouldn't mind either :-) Under linux pdfedit is experimental http://pdfedit.petricek.net/en/index.html pypdf is a python module at lowlevel. http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/ As exercise, you can try to minimic pdffonts in python with pypdf (pdfs with ttf,otf,type1 etc ) -- luigi ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
