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
