Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub]

[Michael Heerdegen]

"gebser@mousecar.com" <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:

> How does one edit a PDF file in emacs?  When I downloaded
> https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/direvent/manual/direvent.pdf, loaded
> it into emacs, and tried to edit it, I could see it it and read it,
> but I couldn't even highlight a part of the text so I could copy
> it... nor could I make any changes to it.

I don't think you want to edit pdf in Emacs: the file contents are not
human readable, and Emacs doesn't provide features to allow graphical
editing like those pdf editors (at least not built in).

epub files can contain human readable parts like html, however.

What I had written:

>> I managed to copy an pdf-File into an epub Archive.  Opened the
>> archive and opened the pdf using doc-view.  I was not able to provoke an
>> error.  Saving worked successfully however I tried.

was only happening because I was trying around how to provoke the
reported error.

Michael.