From: "Trickey, Howard W (Howard)" <trickey@lucent.com>
To: "'Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs'" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: RE: [9fans] text search in PDF?
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 09:04:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D691F041928C1049808A0670D2252BE006334441@nj9620exch001u.mh.lucent.com> (raw)
>> some PS/PDF (i've confirmed what i'm about to say in one, but
>> not both, and can't remember which) files include the actual
>> text of their content;
> iirc it's PS, but it's a nasty problem anyway.
it's not strictly PS, though they share the imaging model and "The PDF
operators for setting the graphics state and painting graphics
objects are similar to the corresponding operators in the
PostScript language". Close enough to PS for text searching.
The main annoyance is that PDF files usually compress their
content after a short bit of PS-like prolog.
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2004-05-14 13:04 Trickey, Howard W (Howard) [this message]
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