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How does that preserve things like layout or equations? I've done similar (though usually less effort) textbook trickery a few times. The Adobe Inept hack is v
by semi-extrinsic 11y ago
How does that preserve things like layout or equations?
I've done similar (though usually less effort) textbook trickery a few times. The Adobe Inept hack is very handy. Oh, and a recent one was stupidly easy: you could view the ebook in your browser, and save excerpts as a pdf, but only 100 pages in total per book. Problem was it stored how many pages you had saved in a cookie, so "Clear the last 5 minutes of browsing history" and you could get another 100 pages, rinse and repeat for all the book and then staple the files together with pdftk.
- function_seven 11y agoI think the "plain text representation" parent is referring to is the PostScript that defines the page. If the equations are rendered in PS, or are inline images, they might survive the roundtrip conversion?
- pdw 11y agoYes, it's a jumble of PostScript fragments, base64-encoded images and PDF metadata. Everything that's needed to reconstruct the original PDF, but in a form that's safe to edit in a text editor.
- scintill76 11y agoYou might want to compress the PDF again when you're done (my understanding is that part of what makes PDFs non-plain-text is binary compression encodings within the PDF container.)