Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-08 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
I'm sure that hartmut has done a presentation sometimes ago f, could be http://www.matexhu.org/eurotex2006/lectures/pdftex/hartmut-talk.pdf Wonderful! This is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for ... is there more material similar in spirit? Hartmut? ;-) Oliver

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Oliver Buerschaper wrote: I'm sure that hartmut has done a presentation sometimes ago f, could be http://www.matexhu.org/eurotex2006/lectures/pdftex/hartmut-talk.pdf Wonderful! This is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for ... is there more material similar in spirit? Hartmut? ;-)

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-08 Thread Martin Schröder
2009/9/8 Oliver Buerschaper oliver.buerscha...@mpq.mpg.de: I'm sure that hartmut has done a presentation sometimes ago f, could be http://www.matexhu.org/eurotex2006/lectures/pdftex/hartmut-talk.pdf Wonderful! This is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for ... is there more material

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-08 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
Don't forget about pdftk vim plugin, otherwise you'll have to count byte offsets on your fingers, or even better use qdf form with qpdf. I've just had a brief look at qpdf and this seems incredible! This might just be the tool I had in mind ... now I'll have to check out what qdf can do for

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-08 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Oliver Buerschaperoliver.buerscha...@mpq.mpg.de wrote: Don't forget about pdftk vim plugin, otherwise you'll have to count byte offsets on your fingers, or even better use qdf form with qpdf. I've just had a brief look at qpdf and this seems incredible! This

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-08 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
Speaking about tools: Acrobat Pro (and some plugins to it) can do a lot. But all commercial, aren't they? With podofobrowser those in the know can do a lot. Will install ;-) And I'm shamelessly plugging my talk at EuroTeX 2009: http://www.oneiros.de/tex/papers/eurotex2009-pdflibs.pdf

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-08 Thread Martin Schröder
2009/9/8 Oliver Buerschaper oliver.buerscha...@mpq.mpg.de: Speaking about tools: Acrobat Pro (and some plugins to it) can do a lot. But all commercial, aren't they? Yes. Best Martin ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-08 Thread luigi scarso
Oliver, at the end (ASAP) you *must* wikify all these stuffs. you can also see my old and unmaintened page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso#Cool_links -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-08 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
I've just had a brief look at qpdf and this seems incredible! This might just be the tool I had in mind ... now I'll have to check out what qdf can do for me ... warning: uncompress pdf can frozen your console and burn you CPU.. Good to know ... actually I wanted to peak into a

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-08 Thread Piotr Kopszak
OK, here it is. But no guarantees it makes much sense. http://okle.pl/blogs/show_post/23 2009/9/8 Oliver Buerschaper oliver.buerscha...@mpq.mpg.de: Don't forget about pdftk vim plugin, otherwise you'll have to count byte offsets on your fingers, or even better use qdf form with qpdf. I've

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-08 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Piotr Kopszakkops...@gmail.com wrote: OK, here it is. But no guarantees it makes much sense. http://okle.pl/blogs/show_post/23 fix-qdf file-before-fixing.pdf file-after-fixing.pdf doesn't work for me -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-08 Thread Piotr Kopszak
But you haven't used that on the example file? It's not qdf compliant. P. 2009/9/8 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Piotr Kopszakkops...@gmail.com wrote: OK, here it is. But no guarantees it makes much sense. http://okle.pl/blogs/show_post/23 fix-qdf

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-08 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Piotr Kopszakkops...@gmail.com wrote: But you haven't used that on the example file? It's not qdf compliant. P. ah ok. -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-08 Thread Hartmut Henkel
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Oliver Buerschaper wrote: I'm sure that hartmut has done a presentation sometimes ago f, could be http://www.matexhu.org/eurotex2006/lectures/pdftex/hartmut-talk.pdf Wonderful! This is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for ... is

[NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-07 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
Dear list, I'd like to perform some basic PDF editing by hand ... can someone point me to a good source of introductory material to get me started? For example, I'd like to remove a text stamp from a given file but also learn something about PDF itself along the way ... if there's some

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-07 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Oliver Buerschaperoliver.buerscha...@mpq.mpg.de wrote: Dear list, I'd like to perform some basic PDF editing by hand ... can someone point me to a good source of introductory material to get me started? pdf spec.

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-07 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
Hi Luigi, pdf spec. www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf xpdf sources That sounds like a definite reference ... probably more than I can digest for a start :-( Perhaps there's a simple, example-driven guide for dummies somewhere? Like writing a simple PDF document with

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-07 Thread luigi scarso
I'm sure that hartmut has done a presentation sometimes ago f, could be http://www.matexhu.org/eurotex2006/lectures/pdftex/hartmut-talk.pdf pypdf is a python module at lowlevel. http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/ This looks very interesting! As exercise, you can try to minimic pdffonts in

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-07 Thread Piotr Kopszak
Don't forget about pdftk vim plugin, otherwise you'll have to count byte offsets on your fingers, or even better use qdf form with qpdf. Maybe I'll publish a short tutorial on writing pdf by hand that I started to write couple of months ago. AFAIK there isn't any (Please, tell me I'm wrong).

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-07 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Piotr Kopszakkops...@gmail.com wrote: Don't forget about pdftk vim plugin, otherwise you'll have to count byte offsets on your fingers, or even better use qdf form with qpdf. Maybe I'll publish a short tutorial on writing pdf by hand that I started to write

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Edit PDF manually

2009-09-07 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Oliver Buerschaperoliver.buerscha...@mpq.mpg.de wrote: Hi Luigi, pdf spec. www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf xpdf sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF -- luigi