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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub]
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 01:31:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ttyft05e.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 0e6c9b8a-b70f-d244-c031-68c0c58dca86@mousecar.com

"gebser@mousecar.com" <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:

> It is kinda weird that, with all the many things that emacs can do, it
> can't take the info from doc-view (which obviously understands all the
> pieces of a pdf-- down to its bits-- and how they all go together to
> make a document) and edit it...

AFAIU it understands nothing at all - it just calls an external
converter to generate a set of png images it then displays.

> it's pretty much implausible to believe emacs *can't* do that.

I think if someone wants to work on something like that the result would
be welcome.  But this probably would have to be done from scratch, more
or less, and not be the smallest effort.

Michael.




  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-21  0:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-15 18:35 emacs 30.5.0 editing epub H.-J. Heitländer
2023-03-16  5:05 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-16  6:57   ` H.-J. Heitländer
2023-03-17  0:44     ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-17  1:13     ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-19 21:23       ` editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub] gebser
2023-03-19 23:59         ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-20  7:15           ` gebser
2023-03-21  0:31             ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2023-03-21  6:28             ` Yuri Khan
2023-03-21  6:38               ` Emanuel Berg
2023-03-22 16:32                 ` Yuri Khan
2023-03-22 18:48                   ` Bob Newell
2023-03-23  9:36                     ` Jean Louis
2023-03-23 23:00                       ` Bob Newell
2023-03-23  9:13                   ` Jean Louis
2023-03-23 10:37                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-23 20:13                     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-03-23 20:07                   ` Emanuel Berg
2023-03-21 11:51               ` Ulrich Deiters
2023-03-21 21:57                 ` gebser
2023-03-21 22:55                   ` Ulrich Deiters
2023-03-22  1:56                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-22  8:26                     ` FOSS replacement for PDF [Re: editing a PDF] gebser
2023-03-22  9:18                       ` Yuri Khan
2023-03-23  9:21                         ` Jean Louis
2023-03-23  9:49                           ` Yuri Khan
2023-03-23 10:53                             ` Gregory Heytings
2023-03-28 11:28                     ` editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub] Michael Heerdegen
2023-03-22  7:03                   ` Jean Louis
2023-03-22 15:20                     ` gebser
2023-03-16  9:22 ` emacs 30.5.0 editing epub Stephen Berman
2023-03-16 13:16   ` H.-J. Heitländer
2023-03-16 15:23     ` Yuri Khan
2023-03-16 16:54       ` H.-J. Heitländer
2023-03-16 18:58         ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-03-20 21:50           ` emacs 30.5.0 editing epub - finishing remark H.-J. Heitländer

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