Re: [pdf-devel] Introduction to PDF

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

>  >   http://gnupdf.org/Introduction_to_PDF
> 
> Very nice Beuc!
> 
> It would be great if you add the following links to files:
> 
>  - Link to the first 'hello world' example.
>  - Link to the flate encoded stream (so the user/developer can play with the
>    pdf-utility on his system)

Hmm, I hesitate.

The first example is meant to be (safely) copy/pasted in a text
editor.

The FlateEncode'd stream is followed by instructions on how to
reproduce it with 'pdf-filter' (encode and decode).

In addition handling arbitrary files with MediaWiki is usually a mess
(stored as Image:something, etc.) and this requires to maintain those
files as the examples are changed (e.g. to add comments, to introduce
the % operator).


Maybe this would make people feel safer though, since they might mess
the copy/paste or the pdf-filter compilation, but they generally don't
mess downloading a file.

Can you try to precise what made you wish for those links?

-- 
Sylvain