pdf files

[Michael Scully]

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-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
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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Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
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