On 1/28/2019 11:55 AM, Taylor, P wrote:
Hans Hagen wrote:
On 1/27/2019 10:00 PM, Ross Moore wrote:
PDFs are now editable, at least in Acrobat Pro.
weren't they always, given fonts being available?
They were always /trivially/ editable; now they are very /powerfully/ editable indeed. Before, an edit could not change the overall bounding box of that particular stretch of text, so one was very restricted in what one can do. Now the bounding box can be re-sized, even moved — Adobe Acrobat DC is a very powerful tool for editing PDFs.
hm, so where does the required information about kerning, ligature building, hyphenation, contextual substitution, anchoring etc come from? i presume we're anyway not talking of documents made by tex
i never edit pdf documents (ok, i remember that once i had to strip stuff in order to get a logo, but not adding something)
I frequently do, since many "forms" that are sent out are intended to be completed by hand; I simply complete them using AADC.
but forms use widgets and those are not really typeset
imo editing a pdf makes no sense (and reflow even less) ... also, with respect to fonts, editing assumes all glyphs being present and with open type fonts one also enters a feature mess and gsub/gpos are not embedded
All I can say is that since using AADC, editing PDFs has become a real pleasure. instead of fixing the source? (i'd probably opt for html then)
but ... given this thread: we're talking of archiving and editing a scientific archived article is imo "not done' and ... for texies, if then make a pdf, they do have a source, so they can fix the source and regenerate the pdf (which also keeps them in sync) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------