On Mon 02 Jun 2014 14:22:48 Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > How do you recommend `disassembling' a PDF to inspect > > its contents? I'm happy grokking PostScript but want to > > see the PDF's structure so pdf2ps's output, for example, > > isn't suitable. > > There is a wonderful program called "qpdf" that converts a > PDF file into an equivalent PDF file optionally performing a > number of conversions, such as uncompressing the contents > (then it's called a "QDF file", but it's still legal PDF). > It has a companion program "fix-qdf" that updates the internal > pointers in case the byte-offsets of the objects shift around > when you edit the file.
Hi Tadziu, Just looked at qpdf. It seems more useful than pdftk, thanks for the heads up. Deri
