Read the chapter 3 of the pdf reference 100 times (I'm not kidding)
until you understand the overall pdf structure. After that have a look
at PdfReader to explore the objects.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark [mailto:elihusmails@(protected)]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 1:41 AM
> To: Paulo Soares
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] PDF file format specification
>
> Thanks for the info. I am interested in trying to dissect a PDF. Is
> this possible with iText? I am most intested in beng able to pull
> apart the different pieces of a PDF.
>
>
>
> On 9/26/05, Paulo Soares <psoares@(protected):
> > The PDF specification is secret and is only transmitted
> from the mouth of a
> > chosen programmer to the ear of another programmer (or from
> the mouth of a
> > druid to the ear of another druid if you are into Panoramix
> and the magic
> > potion). Now, really, where have you been? The pdf
> specification is at
> >
> http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/pdf/index_reference
> .html#5 (1213
> > pages) and iText can read and parse PDFs as in
> > http://www.lowagie.com/iText/faq.html#template.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark" <elihusmails@(protected)>
> > To: <itext-questions@(protected)>
> > Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 10:01 PM
> > Subject: [iText-questions] PDF file format specification
> >
> >
> > since it appears that iText does not support PDF file
> reading/parsing,
> > I was wondering if this group has access to the PDF file format
> > specification. I would like to write a library that would read and
> > parse PDF files.
> >
> > Please let me know if the specification is known, or maybe even
> > available somewhere online.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
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