Question about PDF manipulation

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Jan-Benedict" == Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl.de> writes:

 Jan-Benedict> On Thu, 2005-06-02 15:09:35 -0400, Paul Koning
 Jan-Benedict> <pkoning at equallogic.com> wrote:

 >> So?  Grab the PDF and export the bitmaps into it as whatever file
 >> you like, what's the big deal?

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

Ghostscript reads PDF files every bit as well as PS files, and it's
open source... 

	paul