hehe, the protection from write to pdf's lays in the viewer, if you download xpdf source, there is only 2 places you shall change, and whoop, you are set ;-)
but its illegal, and thats why pdf is read-only, so companies can distribute stuff without the ability of others to change and steal. On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 08:37, Chris I wrote: > On 2003.10.19 00:34, Collins Richey wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 22:06:35 -0400 Chris I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > What I really despise is pdf attachments. OO will create pdf > > just > > > > fine, but > > > > there's no way to read and modify it on linux (that I am aware > > of). > > > > > > There are many pdf viewers for linux. I use gpdf, and have used > > ggv, > > > > > xpdf, and a few others. They are fairly decent, but the font > > rendering, > > > at least on pdf's i have viewed, is terrible. And they lack the > > ability > > > to search pdfs (if the pdf itself has said ability). > > > > > > That said, acrobat reader is availiable for linux. > > > > > > > True enough, but there's no way to modify a pdf. You can create pdf > > easily > > enough from other files, but you can't update a pdf. > > I've never done that on any OS. I'm admittedly not very familiar with > the format, but i was under the impression that pdfs were more or less > a write-once format. > > Apparently I've been missing out :) -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
