view pdf source code

Pardee Phemponpanich

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Mar 3, 2001, 5:09:31 PM3/3/01

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Does anybody know any viewer that I can view pdf source?

Dan Sideen

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Mar 3, 2001, 11:50:07 PM3/3/01

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You can open a pdf file in any word processor or text editor, including MS
Word and Notepad.

Of course, you can't open them by double clicking the pdf file icon - you
must use the editor's File:Open command.
"Pardee Phemponpanich" <pphe...@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message
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Howard Kaikow

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Mar 4, 2001, 4:54:26 PM3/4/01

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Open the file in TEXT mode with, say, Word or Wordpad for a rough overview.
To see the binary codes, you'd have to open it with a hex editor, e.g.,
frhed (http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/~rkibria).
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Please post your response to the newsgroup.

http://www.standards.com/ipusers/standards; Word macros, including
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Pardee Phemponpanich

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Mar 4, 2001, 7:52:27 PM3/4/01

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I've tried this hex editor. Now I can see pdf source on the right side of
"frhed". This can help me learn pdf syntax. Thank you so much.

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A Den Tandt

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Mar 5, 2001, 2:47:03 AM3/5/01

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If you have the full Acrobat, you can also use the free Enfocus Browser:
http://www.enfocus.com/plugins.htm

This browses the cos-level and decrypts the streams.

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William Alexander Segraves

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Mar 4, 2001, 10:31:35 PM3/4/01

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"Pardee Phemponpanich" <pphe...@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message

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Opera 5.02. "View + Source" opens the PDF (source) in Wordpad. "File + Save"
saves the PDF.

Bill Segraves
Auburn, AL

sadya...@gmail.com

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Apr 21, 2020, 11:11:53 AM4/21/20

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On Saturday, March 3, 2001 at 2:09:31 PM UTC-8, Pardee Phemponpanich wrote:
> Does anybody know pdf original source

luserdroog

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Apr 24, 2020, 12:51:00 AM4/24/20

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On Tuesday, April 21, 2020 at 10:11:53 AM UTC-5, sadya...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, March 3, 2001 at 2:09:31 PM UTC-8, Pardee Phemponpanich wrote:
> > Does anybody know pdf original source

You're responding to a thread from 20 years ago. Also, it's bad netiquette to modify quoted text. Also, your question doesn't make sense.

If you're looking for the original idea behind pdf, search for
"the Camelot paper" by John Warnock.

Tedesco Raffa

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Apr 24, 2020, 7:04:38 AM4/24/20

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In Thu, 23 Apr 2020 21:50:59 -0700 (PDT), luserdroog <luser...@gmail.com> scritto:
Path: news-out.usenetserver.com!news-out-sjo.usenetserver.com!europa.netcrusader.net!208.184.7.66!newsfeed.skycache.com!Cidera!cyclone-0.nyroc.rr.com!cyclone-out.nyroc.rr.com!typhoon.nyroc.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: "Pardee Phemponpanich" <pphempo...@twcny.rr.com>
Newsgroups: comp.text.pdf
Subject: view pdf source code
Lines: 3
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400
Message-ID: <vYdo6.172319$v.155...@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 22:09:31 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.24.55.195
X-Complaints-To: ab...@twcny.rr.com
X-Trace: typhoon.nyroc.rr.com 983657371 66.24.55.195 (Sat, 03 Mar 2001 17:09:31 EST)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 17:09:31 EST
Organization: Time Warner Road Runner - Syracuse NY
Xref: supernews.google.com comp.text.pdf:5860

Peter Flynn

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Jun 4, 2020, 4:45:20 PM6/4/20

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I think people do this because they're trying to build up a fake
background of network usage for some bogus reason.

Killfile them.

P

luserdroog

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Oct 10, 2020, 9:30:38 PM10/10/20

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Use the `qpdf` tool to decode pdf files to a readable form.