Re: OT: edit "uneditable" PDF file

[Russ Urquhart russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

Hi,

On Dec 23, 2005, at 5:51 AM, M.W. Poirier wrote:
>  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
Also, for the OS X users, you can send your Postscript output to a
file and then open that file under OS X and a PDF file is
automatically created for you, as the imaging model for OS X is
Quartz which is a superset of PDF.

FWIW.

Russ
> -------
> 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