Re: [pdf-devel] First post to GNU PDF list..

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 17:20 +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> 
>    __Files or Objects - what is the *proper* way to view a PDF?__
>    Now, after playing around with the concept for a while, I started
>    thinking about different transforms one *should* be able to perform
> on
>    a PDF. They involve, for example, seeing all filesystems as just as
>    pretend as each other, and that one ought therefore be able to
> `mount'
>    a PDF. Such filesystem access would be useful from the perspective
> of
>    people with, say, a specific piece of data, maybe a paragraph in a
>    letter that they're quoting, to be able to quote that adequately
> using
>    only a number of simple steps. Presenting to the user as a
> filesystem,
>    we could then use our standard tools to manipulate the document for
>    such editing tasks. (Well, I need to learn more programming to make
>    them effective, so maybe you might make them first. Anyway, that's
> my
>    $0.02).
> 
> This is interesting. Having libgnupdf would be quite funny to write
> such a thing as a Hurd translator :)

Or just using FUSE on Linux!  Then one should just make render TeXbook
using pdfTeX to generate a PDF that has the tex.web code attached to it!

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