Re: reliable editting of any PDF file
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:52:29AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:22:20PM +0000, michael wrote:
>
> > Yes, one of my requirements (portability) meant that I could see the
> > (annotated) PDF on different machines/architectures *without additional
> > files/software* ie the output is saved as PDF which is readable by all
> > PDF viewers... (I would add that it should be searchable (by word) too
> > which would seem to exclude graphical editors such as GIMP)
>
> Then you are using the wrong file format. This is not what PDF is. PDF
> is a portable document format, for distributing basically unmodified and
> unmodifialbe files. There are ways around that as have been discussed,
> but there is not one cross-platform application to do it since it is
> non-standard for the format.
>From what I can find, annotations are in fact a part of the ISO 32000,
a very recently approved standard based on Adobe's 1.7 PDF reference
document.
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Ken Irving, fnkci@uaf.edu
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