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Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub]
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Yuri Khan |
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Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub] |
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Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:28:22 +0700 |
On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 at 14:16, gebser@mousecar.com <gebser@mousecar.com> wrote:
> It is kinda weird that, with all the many things that emacs can do, it
> can't take the info from doc-view (which obviously understands all the
> pieces of a pdf-- down to its bits-- and how they all go together to
> make a document) and edit it... it's pretty much implausible to believe
> emacs *can't* do that. But then, I've always thought reality was
> completely implausible. :^/
PDF is not really meant for editing. It’s not even a data format.
Rather, it’s an executable program that has instructions like “select
this font” and “display this word in the selected font at this
position on the page” and “make a new page”.
You don’t normally edit executable programs, you compile them from
source. In the same vein, to get a modified PDF, you find the source
document from which it was produced, modify that, and re-export.
- emacs 30.5.0 editing epub, H . -J . Heitländer, 2023/03/16
- Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub, Michael Heerdegen, 2023/03/16
- Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub, H . -J . Heitländer, 2023/03/16
- Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub, Michael Heerdegen, 2023/03/16
- Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub, Michael Heerdegen, 2023/03/16
- editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], address@hidden, 2023/03/19
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Michael Heerdegen, 2023/03/19
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], address@hidden, 2023/03/20
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Michael Heerdegen, 2023/03/20
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub],
Yuri Khan <=
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Ulrich Deiters, 2023/03/21
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], address@hidden, 2023/03/21
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Ulrich Deiters, 2023/03/21
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Michael Heerdegen, 2023/03/21
- FOSS replacement for PDF [Re: editing a PDF], address@hidden, 2023/03/22
- Re: FOSS replacement for PDF [Re: editing a PDF], Yuri Khan, 2023/03/22
- Re: FOSS replacement for PDF [Re: editing a PDF], Jean Louis, 2023/03/23
- Re: FOSS replacement for PDF [Re: editing a PDF], Yuri Khan, 2023/03/23
- Re: FOSS replacement for PDF [Re: editing a PDF], Gregory Heytings, 2023/03/23
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Michael Heerdegen, 2023/03/28