Bug#260132: tetex-bin: what does pdftosrc do?
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:
> On 20.07.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
>> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:
>> > On 14.07.04 Dan Jacobson (jidanni@jidanni.org) wrote:
>
>> >> What does pdftosrc do?
>> >>
>> > We don't know it either. Sorry! Bug is known.
>>
>> Googling, I found that
>> http://w3.msi.vxu.se/~pku/MacOSX_TeX/2002a/msg01029.html
>> gives some idea for what it can be used.
>>
> Must have missed that. Preliminary man page attached.
I think this is not the whole story. I cannot give you references, but I
think that one can generally include several "stream objects" into a pdf
file. The objects need not be TeX source code, it can as well be an
arbitrary text or just any file.
See e.g.
http://www.sics.se/~joe/erlpdf.pdf "Using PDF to distribute code"
(seems to be quite nice to read!). Probably it is also explained in
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/acrobat/sdk/public/docs/PDFReference15_v5.pdf
but, as the author of erlpdf.pdf writes:
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| You will absolutly not want to read Adobe portable document format
| version 1.4 ISBN 0-201-75839-3 available on the net at
| http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/technotes/acrobatpdf.html
| which describes the PDF internals in more more detail than any human
| being could conceivably desire.
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Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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