From: r coyne (duckingsnofair@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 18:37:12 EST
Does abi have the necessary hooks to be able to *scan*
documents into it? And/or can abi use an arbitrary
image file, perhaps one scanned in or the rasterized
pdf, as the background/"paper" on which it does its
thing of putting the "ink"? That way one would have
the combination of word-processor-style features with
other parts of the document those word-processing ways
are not allowed to alter.
--- abiword@interlinx.bc.ca wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:50:10PM -0800, Dom
> Lachowicz wrote:
> >
> > Many have identified this need. It's a difficult
> and
> > problematic problem space, and one that Adobe is
> very
> > fierce about protecting, traditionally.
>
> Yeah, well. Bread and butter and all that stuff.
>
> > Well, considering my last job was
> www.appligent.com
> > and I'm currently doing contract work for
> > www.pdfsages.com, I think I know a bit about the
> > topic.
>
> My appologies. I did not mean to sound at all
> authoritative about
> this subject as I am anything but. I guess I was
> just throwing out
> ideas given the use of tools for PDF rendering.
>
> > Rasterizing the PDF to a PNG, and then importing
> the
> > PNG is *trivial*.
>
> :-)
>
> > Getting meaningful structured layout
> > out of a PDF's contents is much much harder (i.e.
> > fonts, text, images, etc...).
>
> OK. So, I'd be happy to rasterize it then. The
> rasterization does
> not even have to look terribly good. I am happy to
> print in two
> passes. One to print the PDF, from say acrobat, and
> the second to
> just "fill in the blanks" (i.e. from abiword).
> Abiword just has to
> show me some decent semblance of the document so
> that I know where to
> place my text.
>
> > Sending PNGs to your
> > printer sucks. PNGs of text is also a sub-optimal
> > model for a word-processor to follow.
>
> Right, but even if the wordprocessor were to print
> the PDF in raster
> format (assuming it was rasterized at a decent
> enough resolution), the
> text that the wordprocessor adds would not have to
> be rasterized, no?
>
> > A word-processor
> > is a much different beast than a "typewriter with
> a
> > monitor" model you've used.
>
> It is, indeed. But does it have to be? It places
> text on paper. I
> don't mean to simplify what a word processor does,
> just one possible
> simple function of it.
>
> b.
>
> --
> Brian J. Murrell
>
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