Comment by kccqzy

2 months ago

You don't need PostScript for that. The PDF text commands are Tj and TJ, and rarely ' and ". They are easy to delete without going through PostScript. Tj means showing a simple text string. TJ means showing an array of strings possibly with space adjustments. ' means moving to the next line and showing a simple string. " means doing that and setting character spacing.

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barrkel  2 months ago

Perhaps, but it's easier to open up and edit a .ps file in a text editor than a PDF. PDF is a binary format with compressed streams, while postscript is just a stack-oriented programming language.

  • kccqzy  2 months ago

    Tools like qpdf makes it easy to edit a .pdf file in a text editor too. I’d argue using such tools is easier than and simpler than printing to postscript.