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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