As other commenters have brought up, editing a pdf is an issue. Is there a utility that converts from pdf to ps? There is a man page for pdftops that describes it as a utility for printing a pdf file..
While I have read an article on pdfs a while back that explained the difficulties in editing a pdf (it was about a proprietary pdf editor for companies that cost thousands), I would assume that if a utility like ps2pdf was used to create the original pdf, it may be possible to back out of the pdf, going back to postscript for re-editing, then use ps2pdf to return it back to pdf. I would also assume that if a different utility or app was used to create the original pdf, it would be much more complicated or impossible for a pdftops utility to re-edit the document.
I haven't tried pdftops, just discovering it on my computer now. I know that on an older Linux distro, it wasn't installed when I tried it.
Any info on whether the other utility, pdftops works, and can it be used to edit a pdf document after conversion, then pstopdf to get it back?
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What about pdf2ps?
Posted by: Fonze on March 24, 2004 01:55 AMWhile I have read an article on pdfs a while back that explained the difficulties in editing a pdf (it was about a proprietary pdf editor for companies that cost thousands), I would assume that if a utility like ps2pdf was used to create the original pdf, it may be possible to back out of the pdf, going back to postscript for re-editing, then use ps2pdf to return it back to pdf. I would also assume that if a different utility or app was used to create the original pdf, it would be much more complicated or impossible for a pdftops utility to re-edit the document.
I haven't tried pdftops, just discovering it on my computer now. I know that on an older Linux distro, it wasn't installed when I tried it.
Any info on whether the other utility, pdftops works, and can it be used to edit a pdf document after conversion, then pstopdf to get it back?
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