> > At the moment these are your only alternatives. > > It amazes me that nobody has identified this need > and filled it yet.
Many have identified this need. It's a difficult and problematic problem space, and one that Adobe is very fierce about protecting, traditionally. > > Importing PDF will be no small feat. > > You think? There are already lots of way to render > PDF. Acrobat > itself will produce a PS file from the PDF, which > could then be read > by Ghostscript to produce some importable format > such as png, or tiff, > etc. Or GS could be used directly on the PDF, > although my experience > with it is that it's not quite perfect yet. Well, considering my last job was www.appligent.com and I'm currently doing contract work for www.pdfsages.com, I think I know a bit about the topic. Rasterizing the PDF to a PNG, and then importing the PNG is *trivial*. Getting meaningful structured layout out of a PDF's contents is much much harder (i.e. fonts, text, images, etc...). Sending PNGs to your printer sucks. PNGs of text is also a sub-optimal model for a word-processor to follow. A word-processor is a much different beast than a "typewriter with a monitor" model you've used. Dom __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
