Re: doc-view.el: about cursor and filename display

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> There is a difference to PostScript, actually: when I am looking at
>>> PDF, I am only _reading_ it, ever (PDF contains file offset tables at
>>> the end which makes it rather inconvenient to hand-edit).
>> 
>> Is there a pdf-mode somewhere?  Maybe one which could decompress the
>> PDF to show the underlying postscript-like text-form?

> PDF is not per se compressed.  It can include compressed streams and
> objects, though.

> pdftk can be used for uncompressing this kind of stuff.  The result is
> still a valid PDF file, just larger.

Yes, I understand that, which is why we'd need a special major mode to
uncompress the various parts (and recompress them when saving, I guess,
although as you say, this would first imply the ability to update the
offset tables).


        Stefan