RE: Saving PDF File With Xywrite

["Brian Henderson" brian-henderson@xxxxxxxx]

Yes, I agree that what you see when you open a PDF what you see is
gobbledy-gook, and most of it LOOKS like binary. But the sections like the
one below (this is the kind of markup that Patricia refers to) ARE EDITABLE!
With a plain text editor (I'm pretty sure they're the ONLY parts that are
editable). And this is the sort of thing I have BEEN editing.

≪/Type/Page/MediaBox [0 0 612 792]
/Rotate 0/Parent 3 0 R
/Resources≪/ProcSet[/PDF /Text]
/Font 21 0 R
≫

But...if you were to open a graphic file or a WORD doc with a plain text
editor, add a space...delete the space, then save the file, it would be
corrupted. That's what is so strange about PDFs, as long as you don't mess
with the binary looking parts, the file doesn't corrupt.

Are they part binary and part ASCII, as Carl says? I don't how that works,
but I accept that Xywrite is not the editor to use on them.

-BH

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Subject: Re: Saving PDF File With Xywrite


** Reply to message from "Brian Henderson"  on Sat,
5
Feb 2005 10:58:00 -0800


> No Robert, PDFs are ASCII...or at least some TYPE of ASCII.

Well, I've never seen one that was plain text. *PS* files (regular
Postscript
files) are ASCII, absolutely -- and completely editable, in XyWrite. And
you
can convert PS to PDF in a jiffy. But PDFs? I don't think so. (Maybe
there's
more than one type of PDF?) I just looked at several that I DLed from
Adobe,
and they are gobbledy gook except for the embedded Postscript control info.
The ones I make are all binary. Check out the PDFs in the next post...


What part of them are you trying to edit? XyWrite canNOT edit them!

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Robert Holmgren
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