Ed: I think image magick will allow PDF files as input and let you output a number of other formats, like encapsulated Postscript that might be editable in other programs. Then you could output to PDF when you're done. Would that work? Scully -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 6:08 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: pdf files On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:57:37AM +1000, Peter Smith wrote: > Yes, of course. But my point is that the reason we go to the expense of > generating pdf files is to produce something that can not easily be > modified. Part of the reason some people produce PDFs is because just anybody can read them. They may have been produced by an application that we don't have access to. For example, our internal typesetting system products Postscript from which we then crank out PDFs for our customers. Some of our customers send us PDFs and then expect us to typeset them into something useful. That means we either have to start over from scratch or rip the PDFs apart into something that gives us a head start. > If someone produces a free pdf editor, we might as well fall > back on .doc. Heh. Yeah, but it's not always pure text. We wish the world was that simple... -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
