* [OT] Edit PDF manually
@ 2009-09-07 15:47 Oliver Buerschaper
2009-09-07 15:53 ` luigi scarso
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From: Oliver Buerschaper @ 2009-09-07 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Dear list,
I'd like to perform some basic PDF editing by hand ... can someone
point me to a good source of introductory material to get me started?
For example, I'd like to remove a text stamp from a given file but
also learn something about PDF itself along the way ... if there's
some open source editing tool that might help me understand bits and
pieces of PDF I wouldn't mind either :-)
Best wishes,
Oliver
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* Re: [OT] Edit PDF manually
2009-09-07 15:47 [OT] Edit PDF manually Oliver Buerschaper
@ 2009-09-07 15:53 ` luigi scarso
2009-09-07 16:34 ` Oliver Buerschaper
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From: luigi scarso @ 2009-09-07 15:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Oliver
Buerschaper<oliver.buerschaper@mpq.mpg.de> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I'd like to perform some basic PDF editing by hand ... can someone point me
> to a good source of introductory material to get me started?
pdf spec.
www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf
xpdf sources
>
> For example, I'd like to remove a text stamp from a given file but also
> learn something about PDF itself along the way ... if there's some open
> source editing tool that might help me understand bits and pieces of PDF I
> wouldn't mind either :-)
Under linux pdfedit is experimental
http://pdfedit.petricek.net/en/index.html
pypdf is a python module at lowlevel.
http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/
As exercise, you can try to minimic pdffonts in python with pypdf
(pdfs with ttf,otf,type1 etc )
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* Re: [OT] Edit PDF manually
2009-09-07 15:53 ` luigi scarso
@ 2009-09-07 16:34 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2009-09-07 17:17 ` luigi scarso
2009-09-07 22:47 ` luigi scarso
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From: Oliver Buerschaper @ 2009-09-07 16:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi Luigi,
> pdf spec.
> www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf
> xpdf sources
That sounds like a definite reference ... probably more than I can
digest for a start :-(
Perhaps there's a simple, example-driven guide for dummies somewhere?
Like writing a simple PDF document with more than one page, non-
contiguous text blocks and perhaps a hyperlink by hand ...
> Under linux pdfedit is experimental
> http://pdfedit.petricek.net/en/index.html
Installed :-) OK, I've just managed to remove a page from a given PDF
file. Beyond that one will probably have to know more about PDF ...
for example, do you know how pdfedit can help me identify which object
in the raw PDF corresponds to a given blob of text on the page? After
selecting the blob I get some info on my selection that eludes me :-(
> pypdf is a python module at lowlevel.
> http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/
This looks very interesting!
> As exercise, you can try to minimic pdffonts in python with pypdf
> (pdfs with ttf,otf,type1 etc )
I'm afraid, I don't understand :-(
Best,
Oliver
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* Re: [OT] Edit PDF manually
2009-09-07 16:34 ` Oliver Buerschaper
@ 2009-09-07 17:17 ` luigi scarso
2009-09-07 21:08 ` Piotr Kopszak
2009-09-08 7:11 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2009-09-07 22:47 ` luigi scarso
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From: luigi scarso @ 2009-09-07 17:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I'm sure that hartmut has done a presentation sometimes ago f, could be
http://www.matexhu.org/eurotex2006/lectures/pdftex/hartmut-talk.pdf
>
>
> pypdf is a python module at lowlevel.
>> http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/
>>
>
> This looks very interesting!
>
>
> As exercise, you can try to minimic pdffonts in python with pypdf
>> (pdfs with ttf,otf,type1 etc )
>>
>
> I'm afraid, I don't understand :-(
>
> Under linux, xpdf comes with pdffonts, a cmd line tools that extracts fonts
information from a pdf.
You can try to mimic it with pyPdf, so your knowledge can augment .
--
luigi
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* Re: [OT] Edit PDF manually
2009-09-07 17:17 ` luigi scarso
@ 2009-09-07 21:08 ` Piotr Kopszak
2009-09-07 21:11 ` luigi scarso
2009-09-08 8:18 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2009-09-08 7:11 ` Oliver Buerschaper
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From: Piotr Kopszak @ 2009-09-07 21:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Don't forget about pdftk vim plugin, otherwise you'll have to count
byte offsets on your fingers, or even better use qdf form with qpdf.
Maybe I'll publish a short tutorial on writing pdf by hand that I
started to write couple of months ago. AFAIK there isn't any (Please,
tell me I'm wrong).
Piotr
2009/9/7 luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>:
> I'm sure that hartmut has done a presentation sometimes ago f, could be
> http://www.matexhu.org/eurotex2006/lectures/pdftex/hartmut-talk.pdf
>
>>
>>> pypdf is a python module at lowlevel.
>>> http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/
>>
>> This looks very interesting!
>>
>>
>>> As exercise, you can try to minimic pdffonts in python with pypdf
>>> (pdfs with ttf,otf,type1 etc )
>>
>> I'm afraid, I don't understand :-(
>>
> Under linux, xpdf comes with pdffonts, a cmd line tools that extracts fonts
> information from a pdf.
> You can try to mimic it with pyPdf, so your knowledge can augment .
>
>
> --
> luigi
>
>
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* Re: [OT] Edit PDF manually
2009-09-07 21:08 ` Piotr Kopszak
@ 2009-09-07 21:11 ` luigi scarso
2009-09-08 8:18 ` Oliver Buerschaper
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From: luigi scarso @ 2009-09-07 21:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Piotr Kopszak<kopszak@gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't forget about pdftk vim plugin, otherwise you'll have to count
> byte offsets on your fingers, or even better use qdf form with qpdf.
> Maybe I'll publish a short tutorial on writing pdf by hand that I
> started to write couple of months ago. AFAIK there isn't any (Please,
> tell me I'm wrong).
If even, another is not bad at all.
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* Re: [OT] Edit PDF manually
2009-09-07 21:08 ` Piotr Kopszak
2009-09-07 21:11 ` luigi scarso
@ 2009-09-08 8:18 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2009-09-08 8:20 ` luigi scarso
2009-09-08 9:39 ` Piotr Kopszak
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From: Oliver Buerschaper @ 2009-09-08 8:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
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> Don't forget about pdftk vim plugin, otherwise you'll have to count
> byte offsets on your fingers, or even better use qdf form with qpdf.
I've just had a brief look at qpdf and this seems incredible! This
might just be the tool I had in mind ... now I'll have to check out
what qdf can do for me ...
> Maybe I'll publish a short tutorial on writing pdf by hand that I
> started to write couple of months ago.
Please do!
Oliver
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* Re: [OT] Edit PDF manually
2009-09-08 8:18 ` Oliver Buerschaper
@ 2009-09-08 8:20 ` luigi scarso
2009-09-08 8:26 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2009-09-08 9:39 ` Piotr Kopszak
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From: luigi scarso @ 2009-09-08 8:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Oliver
Buerschaper<oliver.buerschaper@mpq.mpg.de> wrote:
>> Don't forget about pdftk vim plugin, otherwise you'll have to count
>> byte offsets on your fingers, or even better use qdf form with qpdf.
>
> I've just had a brief look at qpdf and this seems incredible! This might
> just be the tool I had in mind ... now I'll have to check out what qdf can
> do for me ...
warning: uncompress pdf can frozen your console and burn you CPU......
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* Re: [OT] Edit PDF manually
2009-09-08 8:18 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2009-09-08 8:20 ` luigi scarso
@ 2009-09-08 9:39 ` Piotr Kopszak
2009-09-08 9:56 ` luigi scarso
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From: Piotr Kopszak @ 2009-09-08 9:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
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OK, here it is. But no guarantees it makes much sense.
http://okle.pl/blogs/show_post/23
2009/9/8 Oliver Buerschaper <oliver.buerschaper@mpq.mpg.de>:
>> Don't forget about pdftk vim plugin, otherwise you'll have to count
>> byte offsets on your fingers, or even better use qdf form with qpdf.
>
> I've just had a brief look at qpdf and this seems incredible! This might
> just be the tool I had in mind ... now I'll have to check out what qdf can
> do for me ...
>
>
>> Maybe I'll publish a short tutorial on writing pdf by hand that I
>> started to write couple of months ago.
>
> Please do!
>
> Oliver
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* Re: [OT] Edit PDF manually
2009-09-07 17:17 ` luigi scarso
2009-09-07 21:08 ` Piotr Kopszak
@ 2009-09-08 7:11 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2009-09-08 7:14 ` Taco Hoekwater
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From: Oliver Buerschaper @ 2009-09-08 7:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
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> I'm sure that hartmut has done a presentation sometimes ago f, could
> be
> http://www.matexhu.org/eurotex2006/lectures/pdftex/hartmut-talk.pdf
Wonderful! This is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for ... is
there more material similar in spirit? Hartmut? ;-)
Oliver
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* Re: [OT] Edit PDF manually
2009-09-07 16:34 ` Oliver Buerschaper
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@ 2009-09-07 22:47 ` luigi scarso
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From: luigi scarso @ 2009-09-07 22:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Oliver
Buerschaper<oliver.buerschaper@mpq.mpg.de> wrote:
> Hi Luigi,
>
>> pdf spec.
>> www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf
>> xpdf sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF
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