[vox-tech] PDF editor?

Ken Herron vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:59:47 -0800


--On Friday, March 19, 2004 07:02:41 PM -0800 "Karsten M. Self" 
<kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>> > when he said that pdf is an output format (paraphrased).  postscript
>> > is even more of an output format.  i think norm's original email
>> > mentioned he wanted to edit some links.  maybe it was to insert
>> > hyperlinks.  that's not supported by ps AFAIK, so converting to ps,
>> > editing and converting back to pdf won't help.  he's looking for pdf
>> > functionality which isn't available with ps AFAIK.
>
> I've found that hyperlinks in my resume, when translated via html2ps and
> pstopdf, end up as links in the final PDF doc....

Adobe has defined a standard for embedding data into postscript to be 
used when converting the document to a PDF. See 
<http://partners.adobe.com/asn/acrobat/docs/pdfmark.pdf>.

-- 
Ken Herron