XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, comp.text.pdf, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 22:43:11 +0000, Peter Flynn wrote:   
      
   > On 04/03/2025 16:13, Anton Shepelev wrote:   
   >>   
   >> PDF is meant to be a final format not meant for editing.   
   >> Keep it so.   
   >   
   > Nevertheless, I have several times been able to make on-the-fly changes   
   > and even introduce additional material like running headers or   
   > paper-type change statements with   
   >   
   > pdf2ps file.pdf | sed -e "" | ps2pdf newfile.pdf   
      
   Remember that a PDF file is not required to contain anything resembling   
   readable text strings. If present, these are commonly stored separately   
   from the rendered glyphs you seen on-screen, in a form designed for   
   searching, together with an indication of which part of the page to   
   highlight to represent a selection of that text. But this is all optional.   
      
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