Re: [Sheflug] Re: LaTeX

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Steve Tickle wrote:

> Is there a way that I can import a pre-existing .pdf file into lyx in order
> to modify it?

PDF is a display format so is far from ideal for this. pdftotext will
extract the text, pdfimages will extract the images (!).
To edit and regenerate nicely is not really an option.


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