Re: What other tasks do you do that you need free PDF editing tools to do?

From	Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.text.pdf, comp.editors
Subject	Re: What other tasks do you do that you need free PDF editing tools to do?
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Date	2026-05-23 09:33 +0000
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On Sat, 23 May 2026 08:20:47 -0000 (UTC), Anthk GM wrote:

> His older "brother" format from the same company, PostScript,
> already was turing complete; you could do anything from GhostScript,
> even play ZMachine text adventure games as someone built an
> interpreter made in PostScript.

PDF obviously originated as a way to repurpose the graphics model
while chucking away the programming-language part.

The graphics model was never good for anything other than putting
marks on paper -- certainly not interactive on-screen graphics (as
they tried to do with Display PostScript).

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