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: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 02:56:22 +0100 Message-ID: <87lejpczw9.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> <87y1nsmgwz.fsf@web.de> <0e6c9b8a-b70f-d244-c031-68c0c58dca86@mousecar.com> <77a3b68b-a9f1-f8e7-176c-d929c85eb472@uni-koeln.de> <31dffcc9-bda2-b340-a09c-fe3d3a1b3a40@mousecar.com> <57456f0e-5e5e-42d3-6e33-2cdd10d974c5@uni-koeln.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18634"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:tUc5qP/Av13p5fdqWM364Lq5TLk= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 22 02:57:17 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 1penj3-0004eR-QP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 02:57:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1peniM-0005tx-SF; Tue, 21 Mar 2023 21:56:34 -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 1peniL-0005th-9n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2023 21:56:33 -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 1peniJ-0005CI-TL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2023 21:56:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1peniG-0003hG-Tl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 02:56:28 +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:143079 Archived-At: Ulrich Deiters writes: > So you see, the stage at which editing makes sense is Stage (1). Apart from that, the few useful things that you can do with existing pdf's is stuff like reordering pages, changing page sizes or adding page numbers or merge several files (e.g. pdfsam, pdfchain, page-crunch). And there is for example Xournal that allows some very simple and limited editing of pdf files, like adding annotations or inserting your signature as an image. Michael.