pdf files

[Peter Smith]

Ed Wilts wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:40:55AM +1000, Peter Smith wrote:
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>>Ed Wilts wrote:
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>>>For editing an existing pdf, I have no clue...the developers at my
>>>office are having a bugger of a time finding a generic solution.
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>>I thought the whole point of  the pdf was that it was a file that could 
>>not be modified?
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>Every binary file can be modified.  Some just take more work than
>others.
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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.  If someone produces a free pdf editor, we might as well fall 
back on .doc.  Heh.

Regards,
Peter