Re: Deleting images from a PDF

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 22:23 +0000, Roger Burton West wrote:
> Just in case there are any humans on this list, and not just spambots...
> 
> I want to write a filter which will remove all bitmapped images from its
> input PDF. (This is for viewing on mobile devices with small screens.)
> It seems to me that what I ought to be doing is enumerating the objects
> in the source PDF and copying to the destination PDF all of those which
> aren't bitmaps or references to bitmaps. Does this seem plausible, or is
> it hopelessly naif? If it does seem plausible, how does one enumerate
> objects using PDF::API2?
> 
> Roger
> 

Plausible, yes, even possible.

However, PDF::API2 does not provide methods to access the content.  Oh,
it's there but to access it, you'll have write the code to unfilter it,
parse it, then enumerate it.


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    Shawn

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