[pdftex] \pdfstartlink attributes

[Gerree Pecht]

Dear Professor Ivrii,

Thank you so very much for your quick response to my query.

I don't want to edit .pdf files ... I was curious if whether it
was possible using LaTeX package(s) that is used to typeset highly 
mathematical 
papers/books. The (manuscripts) are usually  converted from LaTeX 
format to .pdf for "view" on "all" systems.  The .pd file is what gets 
put on the web page and also sent as an attachment.  I was just curious 
as to the possibility.  Thanks again.


Best,

Gerree

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Victor Ivrii 
wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Heiko Oberdiek
> <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 08:34:47AM -0400, Gerree Pecht wrote:
>>
>
>>
>>  a) Knowledge of the PDF format.
>>  b) Editor.
>>
>>  But why do you want to edit PDF files?
>>  But I doubt that you want to do it.
>>
>
> I suspect that you  are talking about very different things: you are
> talking about editing using general file editor (and this is
> definitely requires an expert knowledge), while he refers to something
> like editing using Acrobat (or at least Apple Preview).
>
> But there is a third way: incorporate existing pdf into your own. For
> example, using eso-pic (LaTeX package, there other packages with the
> similar functionality) one can use existing pdf as background and
> overprint it. It may work if filling some "forms" (I mean not real pdf
> forms with  fields but rather "picture of the form").  One can also
> "remove" some part of the document just placing white rectangle over
> it and may be something else over rectangle.
>
>
> Victor
>

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Gerree P. Pecht
Princeton University Mathematics Department
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