From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub] Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:59:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87y1nsmgwz.fsf@web.de> References: <877cvhqo9p.fsf@web.de> <4a7a0baf-677b-118c-fa6c-e50d054800e7@posteo.de> <87o7osp4ck.fsf@web.de> <704a63ef-c56d-f892-1e3f-9ee0f884b038@mousecar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18061"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:QYCs/IV0Pq3VabE7qSPE6gVborE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 20 01:00:19 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pe2wk-0004X1-TT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2023 01:00:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pe2w3-0002n9-Qy; Sun, 19 Mar 2023 19:59:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pe2w2-0002mz-Fk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2023 19:59:34 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pe2w0-0002ps-O4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2023 19:59:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pe2vy-0003iv-H9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:59:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:143065 Archived-At: "gebser@mousecar.com" writes: > How does one edit a PDF file in emacs? When I downloaded > https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/direvent/manual/direvent.pdf, loaded > it into emacs, and tried to edit it, I could see it it and read it, > but I couldn't even highlight a part of the text so I could copy > it... nor could I make any changes to it. I don't think you want to edit pdf in Emacs: the file contents are not human readable, and Emacs doesn't provide features to allow graphical editing like those pdf editors (at least not built in). epub files can contain human readable parts like html, however. What I had written: >> I managed to copy an pdf-File into an epub Archive. Opened the >> archive and opened the pdf using doc-view. I was not able to provoke an >> error. Saving worked successfully however I tried. was only happening because I was trying around how to provoke the reported error. Michael.