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 :)
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