Re: vim | editing pdf files with vim
Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos did utter on 10/10/2006 14:58: Hi all, is there a way to edit pdf files with vim? If not pdf as is, then eps or postscript? I tried with either format but the text kept been converted to sthl ike ASCII code. In general trying to edit PDF or PostScript files is a non-starter, unless you have a lot of knowledge about how the files were constructed. In particular, text depends on the font encoding used. It will be much easier to go back to the original application that generated the PDF/PS and edit the document there. TTFN Mike -- Free the bound periodicals!
Re: vim | editing pdf files with vim
Mike Williams wrote: Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos did utter on 10/10/2006 14:58: Hi all, is there a way to edit pdf files with vim? If not pdf as is, then eps or postscript? I tried with either format but the text kept been converted to sthl ike ASCII code. In general trying to edit PDF or PostScript files is a non-starter, unless you have a lot of knowledge about how the files were constructed. In particular, text depends on the font encoding used. It will be much easier to go back to the original application that generated the PDF/PS and edit the document there. TTFN Mike You are 100% right. But what if you cannot access the original file? Lets say you want to edit a pdf you downloaded from internet. Isn't there a way to do this with vim? I haven't tried emacs or sed but probably they will fail too. I was just wondering if there some way out there. Nikos
RE: vim | editing pdf files with vim
PDF files need to be edited with a specific editor, because they contain non-human readable structure and encodings. Your request is similar to asking if you could edit a JPEG with vim. If it is just a PDF of a text file then you should simply be able to copy/paste the text into your favourite text editor (vim!), and edit it there, but if you want to edit the PDF file then you will need to search for a PDF editor. I don't know of any off-hand, but I'm sure a quick Google search will turn one up. Max -Original Message- From: Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; vim@vim.org Subject: Re: vim | editing pdf files with vim Mike Williams wrote: Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos did utter on 10/10/2006 14:58: Hi all, is there a way to edit pdf files with vim? If not pdf as is, then eps or postscript? I tried with either format but the text kept been converted to sthl ike ASCII code. In general trying to edit PDF or PostScript files is a non-starter, unless you have a lot of knowledge about how the files were constructed. In particular, text depends on the font encoding used. It will be much easier to go back to the original application that generated the PDF/PS and edit the document there. TTFN Mike You are 100% right. But what if you cannot access the original file? Lets say you want to edit a pdf you downloaded from internet. Isn't there a way to do this with vim? I haven't tried emacs or sed but probably they will fail too. I was just wondering if there some way out there. Nikos
Re: vim | editing pdf files with vim
Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos wrote: Hi all, is there a way to edit pdf files with vim? If not pdf as is, then eps or postscript? I tried with either format but the text kept been converted to sthl ike ASCII code. Thanks, Nikos Vim is a text editor. PDF files contain both text data and binary data. I woudn't try editing them with Vim: too much risk of f...ouling it all up by not knowing what I'm doing. If you want to see what PDF looks like when printed, use Acrobat Reader. If you want to edit it, I guess you'll have to buy some PDF editor from Adobe. PostScript can, IIUC, be viewed in Vim, and even with syntax highlighting -- but as PostScript code, not as WYSIWYG rendered text. That's great if you want to program in PostScript. Best regards, Tony.
Re: vim | editing pdf files with vim
Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos wrote: is there a way to edit pdf files with vim? If not pdf as is, then eps or postscript? I tried with either format but the text kept been converted to sthl ike ASCII code. Not really. But you can use a program called pdftk that will help you along those lines. http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
Re: vim | editing pdf files with vim
Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos wrote: is there a way to edit pdf files with vim? If not pdf as is, then eps or postscript? I tried with either format but the text kept been converted to sthl ike ASCII code. Woops ... just found this by accident: http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/#vim_plugin From the description: Vim users can also install my plug-in for easily editing PDF code. When you open a PDF in Vim, the plug-in calls pdftk to uncompress the page streams, so they are editable. When you save the PDF, the plug-in uses pdftk to repair and re-compress the PDF. Don't know how well it works.
Re: vim | editing pdf files with vim
Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos wrote:, is there a way to edit pdf files with vim? If not pdf as is, then eps or postscript? I tried with either format but the text kept been converted to sthl ike ASCII code. For purposes of visualization, using netrw's browser and, with the cursor on the pdf file, pressing x will (usually) bring up a tool to visualize the pdf file. For editing (as in changing file contents), I'm afraid I don't know. Regards, Chip Campbell
Re: vim | editing pdf files with vim
On 10/10/06, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way to edit pdf files with vim? If not pdf as is, then eps or postscript? I tried with either format but the text kept been converted to sthl ike ASCII code. Try to find pdf-to-word conversion tool (openoffice can edit word files), or pdf-to-rtf conversion tool. Then you edit word file or rtf fle, then openoffice can export file into pdf format back again. Yakov
