Question about PDF manipulation

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Thu, 2005-06-02 15:09:35 -0400, Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "Bjørn" == Bjørn Vermo <bv at norbionics.com> writes:

>  Bjørn> You do not get my point: Instead of adding an extra step to
>  Bjørn> make PDF files, I think it is better to keep the raw
>  Bjørn> scans. Preferably as PNGs, but if the scanner software does
>  Bjørn> not provide that, TIFF is workable.
> 
> So?  Grab the PDF and export the bitmaps into it as whatever file you
> like, what's the big deal?

Do we actually *have* the tools? We've got tumble to assemble a PDF
file, but do we have proper tools to disassemble one? ...and I really
mean exporting the initial TIFF, not something that looks like it.

MfG, JBG

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