3 Jun
2005
3 Jun
'05
12:57 p.m.
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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