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Re: Can I copy/paste Python code?

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Date Tue, 21 Jul 2015 20:05:50 -0400
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On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:02:16 +0000, Oscar Benjamin
<oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> declaimed the following:

>
>They're not violating any PDF rule. PDF as a format was not designed with
>this kind of usage in mind. The idea of a PDF is that contains as much
>information as is required to unambiguously represent the *appearance* of a
>document. It's really a vectorised image format (like SVG) but with a few
>extra document-like features (e.g. pages).

	I haven't looked an recent versions, but the early PDF language was
essentially a simplified PostScript (abbreviated commands). As with
PostScript, it supports vector drawing (used for font rendering, and may be
used for line drawings -- if the generator is smart enough to actually send
vector commands, and not relying on pre-rendering and sending a bitmap) and
bitmaps (used for images).

	But yes... cut&paste /from/ a PDF document was never intended to
reproduce the visual layout. Python code indentation could easily end up in
PDF as text boxes with different left/right margins -- but all the text is
left justified within its box.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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