[pdftex] How to covert pdf file into latex file?

[Robin Fairbairns]

reinhard kotucha wrote:

> >>>>> "John" == John R Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> writes:
> 
>   > And I know of no one who has even attempted this kind of reverse
>   > engineering on a pdf file.
> 
> Why do you want to reverse engineer anything while it is very well
> documented? 

the latex source of a file is indeed good "documentation" of a file,
but the whole point of this thread is that the source has been lost.

robin