On Wednesday 26 January 2005 01:27, Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 19:31, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
Where can I find the list of new features in 2.0? I'm especially interested to see if 2.0 will import .pdf files into the word processor or spreadsheet applications.
Isn't it an essential part of the pdf idea that you can't easily do that? Does even Acrobat do that? Be interested to know if it does ... Cheers
Yes, Fergus, Adobe Acrobat most certainly can edit PDFs. The PDF spec is published openly, so there's nothing preventing an open-source counterpart to Acrobat. PDFs are not an opaque format. Generic, unrestricted PostScript is much harder to deal with, since it's a programming language (based on FORTH, originally) in which new procedures can be defined and the full computational power of a Turing Machine is available. PDF is vastly more restricted and uses a fixed set of rendering and encoding primitives. It is also much more compact, which led to the term "distilling" for the process of converting PostScript to PDF.
Fergus
Randall Schulz