Re: [Pdfedit-support] Documentation about revisions

[Alister H. <ali...@sy...>]

Great, thanks.

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From: Michal Hocko [mailto:ms...@gm...] 
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Subject: Re: [Pdfedit-support] Documentation about revisions

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On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 07:39:17PM +1300, Alister Hood wrote:
> Hi again,

Hi,

> 
> Not long ago I suggested the "general overview" section of the
> documentation should have something like this put in it:

Sorry, but your email somehow vanished from my inbox.

> 
>  
> 
> > "Pdf Editor allows simple manipulation of objects within the PDF 
> 
> > structure, using a graphical and command-line interface and a 
> 
> > powerful scripting language.  Changes to a document are added to it 
> 
> > as a new revision so that old revisions can be viewed or saved as a
> new file.
> 
> > This means that if you delete something from a document it can still
> 
> > be seen in the previous revision, and the file will not get
smaller."
> 
>

Thanks! I have updated the xml file (see the attached patch).
  
> 
> The other thing that isn't clear from the documentation is how other
> software deals with these revisions.  Can they be seen by any other
> program?  It would be good if the documentation stated this.

This part is also included in the patch. Unfortunately I don't know
about any software which would enable document history browsing. What is
clear, though, all PDF viewers have to display the most recent revision.

> 
> Thanks,

Thanks

> 
> Alister
> 

Best regards
-- 
Michal Hocko