From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc-view.el: about cursor and filename display Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:48:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r6jw20p3.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <87przfbm9t.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <876416qgnr.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <876415a55w.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <200710172329.l9HNTO4F010666@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <86d4vbczlh.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <87ve928tck.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <85lk9wa54l.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85sl446wpn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193014203 26093 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2007 00:50:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:50:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Miles Bader To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 22 02:50:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IjlUY-0005qd-JH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:50:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjlUQ-000050-Sm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:49:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjlTL-0007Gn-Lo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:48:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjlTG-0007A6-U4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:48:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjlTG-00079p-Mo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:48:42 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts5.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.25] helo=tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjlT5-0003Y8-N2; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:48:31 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([74.12.205.156]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20071022004830.ZRNA17217.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:48:30 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 7F5D57FBA; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:48:30 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <85sl446wpn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Sun\, 21 Oct 2007 22\:26\:12 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81416 Archived-At: >>> There is a difference to PostScript, actually: when I am looking at >>> PDF, I am only _reading_ it, ever (PDF contains file offset tables at >>> the end which makes it rather inconvenient to hand-edit). >> >> Is there a pdf-mode somewhere? Maybe one which could decompress the >> PDF to show the underlying postscript-like text-form? > PDF is not per se compressed. It can include compressed streams and > objects, though. > pdftk can be used for uncompressing this kind of stuff. The result is > still a valid PDF file, just larger. Yes, I understand that, which is why we'd need a special major mode to uncompress the various parts (and recompress them when saving, I guess, although as you say, this would first imply the ability to update the offset tables). Stefan