From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: [OT] Edit PDF manually
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 17:53:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe8d59da0909070853y5c732caas2b414412dc164404@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <387332A8-3062-4CF3-A318-F2E327345BD1@mpq.mpg.de>
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 )
--
luigi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-07 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-07 15:47 Oliver Buerschaper
2009-09-07 15:53 ` luigi scarso [this message]
2009-09-07 16:34 ` Oliver Buerschaper
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 8:20 ` luigi scarso
2009-09-08 8:26 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2009-09-08 8:34 ` luigi scarso
2009-09-08 9:39 ` Piotr Kopszak
2009-09-08 9:56 ` luigi scarso
2009-09-08 10:21 ` Piotr Kopszak
2009-09-08 10:27 ` luigi scarso
2009-09-08 7:11 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2009-09-08 7:14 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-09-08 20:04 ` Hartmut Henkel
2009-09-08 7:20 ` Martin Schröder
2009-09-08 8:23 ` Oliver Buerschaper
2009-09-08 8:28 ` Martin Schröder
2009-09-07 22:47 ` luigi scarso
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