Question about PDF manipulation

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Fri Jun 3 15:03:29 CDT 2005


Michael Sokolov wrote:
>>Was the PS hand-edited by a person, or generated by a program?
> Doesn't matter.
> 
>>If the latter, I doubt the original PS will have "more" than the PDF.
> It doesn't matter whether it has "more" or not.  I just *want* the
> original PS.

That's pretty ignorant.  What is the logic behind your viewpoint?

>>Most PDFs I've created from PS source had that PS source generated by some 
>>other program.  PS was just the intermediate transport.
> 
> Doesn't matter to me.  Whether you wrote the PS by hand or generated it
> from another source, you have the PS.  I want it.  But you don't give it
> to me and instead apply an irreversible transformation to it.

In the generated case, the PS *ITSELF* was an irreversable transformation of 
the source material!  Shouldn't you be demanding the source material instead?
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