pdf files

Larry D Sorensen larry.sorensen at juno.com
Wed Dec 8 03:30:51 UTC 2004


I will try that.


On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:31:40 -0800 "Michael Scully"
<agentscully at flexiblestrategies.com> writes:
> Ed:
> 
>         I think image magick will allow PDF files as input and let 
> you
> output a number of other formats, like encapsulated Postscript that 
> might be
> editable in other programs.  Then you could output to PDF when 
> you're done.
> Would that work?
> 
> Scully
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 6:08 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: pdf files
> 
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:57:37AM +1000, Peter Smith wrote:
> > Yes, of course.  But my point is that the reason we go to the 
> expense of 
> > generating pdf files is to produce something that can not easily 
> be 
> > modified.  
> 
> Part of the reason some people produce PDFs is because just anybody 
> can
> read them.  They may have been produced by an application that we 
> don't
> have access to.  For example, our internal typesetting system 
> products
> Postscript from which we then crank out PDFs for our customers.  
> 
> Some of our customers send us PDFs and then expect us to typeset 
> them
> into something useful.  That means we either have to start over 
> from
> scratch or rip the PDFs apart into something that gives us a head 
> start.
> 
> > If someone produces a free pdf editor, we might as well fall 
> > back on .doc.  Heh.
> 
> Yeah, but it's not always pure text.  We wish the world was that
> simple...
> 
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