Re: add bookmarks to existing pdf?

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Sunday 25 April 2004 08:56, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 03:54:32PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > On Saturday 24 April 2004 14:07, David Purton wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Does anybody know of a tool to add bookmarks to an existing pdf
> > > under linux?
> >
> > Good question.  I was about to ask here the more general question
> > if anyone knows any pdf and/or ps editing tools.
>
> Hi all,
> the thing about pdf and ps is that they are OUTPUT formats. There
> might be such animal and many folks might be looking for such a
> thing. I have not come across any.

Point taken, but from my scanty reading about ps, it would be possible 
to have a kind of word processor which used ps as its file format.  
And, as I understand it, pdf is in effect a kind of ps wrapper with 
some sort of compression, so the same should be true for pdf.  It ought 
to be possible, surely, to have a reverse interpreter for ps that could 
import a file back into lyx or the like.  But a much cruder ps-parser 
and rewriter would be very useful.

-- 
richard