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Yes, 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
by pdw 11y ago
Yes, 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.)