Question about PDF manipulation

[vrs]

From: "der Mouse" <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
> As of 2005-01-30 I found
> http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/pdf/PDFReference16.pdf,
> and it was there when I checked sometime later this year (I don't
> have any record of that date).
>
> I note it's a PDF file, which makes for an amusing checken-and-egg
> problem in principle. :-)

Even in practice, since the darned thing appears to be in PDF 1.6 format
(which my Acrobat 4.0 doesn't seem able to read).

    Vince