Hi there, all.
On Oct 26 2006, Brad Sawatzky wrote:
Skencil's interface is still a little clunky but I found it worked
better than xfig when editing the converted files.
I have been working with xfig a lot to be stubborn even if people tell
me that there are other tools that are better.
Once
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 12:17:51PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Ken Irving wrote:
[snip]
[Ken, quoting Wikipedia]
PDF is a file format instead of a programming language and for that
reason it doesn't need to be interpreted. For instance, flow control
commands like if and loop are
Actually, PDF is not a programming language, contrary to Postscript.
So it's much easier to deal with (and more difficult to introduce viruses
into it, among other things).
Really? Can you explain more about this? I thought PDF was a subset of
Postscript with some kind of compression and/or
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:02:44 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file?
In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only
saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form.
pdfcrop can extract rectangular areas
Stefan Monnier wrote:
What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file?
In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only
saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form.
You don't ask much, do you?
No, indeed. Mac OS X's `preview' does
Scribus is probably your best bet for actually importing a PDF in any
friendly way -- I think they were at least working on that, not sure if it
is really usable
Hmm... never heard of it. Looks interesting. I don't know how to make it
read PDF, tho.
Coming in late
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:17:22AM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote:
Stefan Monnier wrote:
someone wrote:
theory
AFAIK: PDF is not strictly speaking a vector-graphics format. It is
a subset of Postscript, which is actually a programming language for
drawing
documents. It is designed for
Ken Irving wrote:
[snip]
[Ken, quoting Wikipedia]
PDF is a file format instead of a programming language and for that
reason it doesn't need to be interpreted. For instance, flow control
commands like if and loop are removed, while graphics commands such
as lineto remain.
I dunno
Kamaraju Kusumanchi([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
On Thursday 26 October 2006 13:02, Wayne Topa wrote:
apt-cache search pdf
wajig search pdf
both of them do the same thing and give exactly the same results. There is no
need to use them both.
I know that but he might
What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file?
In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only
saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form.
Stefan
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file?
In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only
saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form.
Stefan
You don't ask much, do you?
theory
AFAIK: PDF is not strictly
Stefan Monnier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file?
In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only
saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form.
apropos pdf
apt-cache search pdf
wajig
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:57:21PM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote:
} Stefan Monnier wrote:
} What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file?
} In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only
} saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form.
}
}
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Gregory Seidman wrote:
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:57:21PM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote:
} Stefan Monnier wrote:
} What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file?
} In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only
} saved as a bitmap, whereas
On Thursday 26 October 2006 13:02, Wayne Topa wrote:
apt-cache search pdf
wajig search pdf
both of them do the same thing and give exactly the same results. There is no
need to use them both.
raju
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Þann 2006-10-26, 12:02:44 (-0400) skrifaði Stefan Monnier:
What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file?
In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only
saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form.
This tool is not in debian but could do
What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file?
In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only
saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form.
You don't ask much, do you?
No, indeed. Mac OS X's `preview' does it out of the box.
theory
AFAIK:
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