Subject: A PDF editor for NetBSD?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Gan Uesli Starling <alias@starling.us>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/14/2003 10:46:11
Am wondering if anybody has used or knows of a PDF editor for 
NetBSD.

I've been playing with this...

html -> html2ps -> ps->pdf

...and it works okay.

But the final PDF is only semi like the original. Nearly all 
of the CSS is lost. I find it to be the html2ps stage which 
loses those styles.

I know PostScript pretty well. But that html2ps script 
obfuscates the code something awful to minimize file size. It 
is just plain unreadable, let alone editable.

I might try to edit html2ps to undo all that and output 
unobfuscated PostScript since html2ps is in Perl...except that 
it runs more than 4K lines of code. Thus I am intimidated.

Being lazy and impatient I hope for a way to maybe tweak the 
PDF instead. I find that the PDF contains binary. So I would 
need an editor. Anybody know of one?

I suppose I could study XSL:FO and FOP but am hoping for an 
easy out since I won't be using it that often. Firstly it is 
aimed at avoiding MS-Word so as to distribute my resume. To 
give it out as PDF would be cool. But it should not look 
kludgy, yes?

Thanks,

Gan

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