Screw Drivers and PDF Files

[Jim Leonard]

Paul Koning wrote:
>  Jim> If you have a "need" for extracting images from PDF than you are
>  Jim> missing the point of PDF.  If you can view it and print it you
>  Jim> have no need to extract images from it. 
> 
> Not true.  I've done an extract and re-insert on several PDF files, to
> clean up the scans with a graphics editor.

But that's not your domain/responsibility.  The PDF should have been perfect by 
the time it got to you -- PDF is a final end-destination format.  If the scans 
needed touching up, they shouldn't have made it into a PDF in the first place.

I think the real "problem" people have here with PDF files is with *BAD* PDF 
files -- files created by people who were sloppy or didn't pay attention.  I 
don't distribute something in PDF until I've cleaned it up AND OCR'd it so that 
the text is text and the pictures are pictures (and yes, I proofread the doc 
before I make it available).

There's anothing wrong with PDF; blame the PDF creators.
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