Question about PDF manipulation

[Jim Leonard]

Michael Sokolov wrote:
> There are very few things in the Universe that enrage me more than PDF
> files that have been produced from PostScript with the original PS being
> unavailable to me.  PS reconstructed from PDF is never as good as the
> original PS from which the PDF was made.

What is your proof that the PDF was created from PS?  Was the PS hand-edited by 
a person, or generated by a program?  If the latter, I doubt the original PS 
will have "more" than the PDF.

> The difference between PostScript and PDF is very much like that between
> the source and binary forms of a program.  Publishing PDF files while
> withholding or discarding PS from which they were made is a crime

Most PDFs I've created from PS source had that PS source generated by some 
other program.  PS was just the intermediate transport.  The "original PS" 
didn't exist since the *original* was really something else.
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