Re: OT: edit "uneditable" PDF file

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 On the broader question of creating a PDF file from
 scratch--and assuming that one has MSWord on one's
 computer, and one has yet to set up XY to do this--
 one might consider getting a freeware copy of
 CutePDF Writer. All one need do then is convert one's
 XY file to RTF, call it up in MsWord, save it as a
 MSWord document, and instead of printing the file,
 sent it to CutePDF, which produces a PDF file of the
 same name as the XY and MSword doc. The operation is
 almost instantaneous. Mind you, there are certain
 feature that one will not have that are part of the
 Adobe Writer package, password protection, etc., but
 one will have a very nice PDF file.

 M.W. Poirier


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On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, J R FOX wrote:

> Maybe someone who knows can give me a quick answer on
> this. PDFs are supposed to be locked down, such that
> they can't be edited. I take it then that you
> probably can't print one to a file, do some *very*
> minor editing on it with Xy or a Hex editor (in this
> case, change a couple of dates mentioned in the text),
> and then print out the edited version ? Or might that
> actually work ?
>
> I do have GhostScript, btw, but have only used it for
> display purposes . . . in case it does anything more
> than that. I've heard of Poor Man's Distiller, which
> I think was supposed to be the freeware alternative to
> the full, $$, create / edit PDFs version of Acrobat,
> but have never seen it.
>
>
> Jordan
>
>