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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Okular moving (covering parts of .pdfs)
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2006-11-29 22:34:00
Message-ID: ekl1so$ud1$2 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Kuba Ober wrote:
>> * covering unwanted sections with a black or white
>>   area
> 
> ROTFL. You've made my day. One would think that only clueless bureaucrats 
> think that way ;)
> 
> In order to remove content, you have to remove it, as in physically 
> overwriting the bits of image bitmaps in the .pdf, and clipping, splitting 
> and then removing the "hidden" paths. There's no other way. There could be 
> probably some postscript magic done to implement that, if noone did so yet.

I think the objective was to do such preparations prior to printing a 
document, so that the physical-paper-and-ink output would not have the 
undesired content. Otherwise, you are of course correct.

-- 
Matthew
Emacs is a nice OS - but it lacks a good text editor.
That's why I am using Vim.  -- Anonymous

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