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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Re: Re: PDF Import Filter
From:       Dirk_Schönberger <dirk.schoenberger () sz-online ! de>
Date:       2002-11-25 8:29:37
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> > I think PDF is rather difficult, because most of PDF documents are
encoded,
> > i.e. archived using some algorithm like PKZIPs deflate. If you manage to

> From what i understood xpdf handles that and even encryption.

But somehow I am not really interested in PDF. IMHO PDF is some "write-only"
format, i.e. it is created for later viewing, only. You throw away much too
much meta information, which cannot be easily restored later. Besides, PDF
is inherently multi-paged, and you don't really want to put the content of
multiple pages into one Karbon page.

Other office components, like KWord, may be interested in the text, bt can't
handle the graphics anyway.

If you use PDF in Adobe Illustrator > 7, you should be aware that you lock
yourself in.
The exchange file format capabilities of the AI format ends somewhere
between AI88 and AI3 ...

Regards
Dirk



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