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Re: Attribution-ShareAlike License



On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:04:43 +0100, Stephen Stafford <ssta@pol.ac.uk> said: 

> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:25:03PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>
>> As have I, but I have had to resort to using non free tools on a
>> non free OS to do so. Are you aware of free software that would
>> allow me to directly edit PDF files?  If not, then Florian may have
>> a point.
>>

> Umm, "vi foo.pdf" usually works fine.

	I see. About as well as decompiling and editing the assmbly
 for binaries, then, for most PDF's I deal with.

> PDF is just plaintext (unless it uses encryption).  Okay, it's not
> very human readable, but you CAN write it by hand if you want to.

%PDF-1.4^M%%G����%@^M
42 0 obj^M<< ^M/Linearized 1 ^M/O 45 ^M/H [ 958 344 ] ^M/L 41261 ^M/E
6963 ^M/N 10 ^M/T 40303 ^M>> ^Mendobj^M
xref^M42 18 ^M0000000016 00000 n^M 
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	That is what I get with vim N-400_no_fill.pdf, the US
 governments naturalization pdf.

	I think saying PDF is editable by vim is stretching things a
 tad. 

	manoj
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