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| From | Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Can I copy/paste Python code? |
| Date | 2015-07-21 20:05 -0400 |
| Organization | IISS Elusive Unicorn |
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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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