Re: Editing PDF files?

2005-08-22 Thread Joseph Alotta
I think someone needs to build an editor for PDF files. Maybe macros for emacs or vim. On Aug 21, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Aug 20, 2005, at 7:52 PM, Rich Morin wrote: I'm interested in being able to perform simple edits on PDF files. For example, I might want to be able

Re: Editing PDF files?

2005-08-22 Thread Arntzen, Torkjell
Hello.. This have been a problem as long as PDF has existed. The PDF format was initially created as a simpler and smaller format than PostScript. It's like PS not a format that was intended to be editable There are some applicarions thought that you might like to try out. The commersial

Re: Editing PDF files?

2005-08-21 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Aug 20, 2005, at 7:52 PM, Rich Morin wrote: I'm interested in being able to perform simple edits on PDF files. For example, I might want to be able to change the colors of some characters and output the changed version. I looked ad Apple's PDFKit, thinking there might be a solution, but

Re: Editing PDF files?

2005-08-21 Thread Rich Morin
At 5:16 PM -0400 8/21/05, Sherm Pendley wrote: PDF is really more of a delivery format than an editing format. Yeah, but Acrobat now supports mark-up, etc. I have also edited PostScript files in the past, which is the same basic idea. I COULD convert the files to PS in order to edit them,