On Friday 03 February 2006 06:40, Bart Alberti wrote: > The author of pdftk has a book PDF HACKS published by O'reilly > which is mostly a collection of recipes for dealing with pdf files. > However, there is a scheme for using a plug in to vim or gvim which > uncompresses the pdf and put it in the text editor. Since vim is > scriptable (I don't know personally how to) this may be a clue to > long sought import and/or edit pdf. > Bart Alberti > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
PDF editing is vastly more complex than editing the raw PDF source in vi. One of the major stumbling blocks is the non-linear nature of PDF. It will take a powerful parser to be able to edit PDF natively. Peter
