The Books app demonstrates how stultified is the approach to text on computers. It’s carefully engineered to work like a book, not to bring any new powers to text or reading.
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Tables of Contents, Outline, Bookmarks: what’s the difference, and how portable are they in PDF?
Looking inside the Mueller report to see if any hidden content can be revealed. Includes a free Rich Text transcription of the report.
Prints from any one of its six views, two as PDF, and four different text views, each of which is generated in Light Mode to save the black toner.
Save a Rich Text version of any PDF document, and explore its PDF code further, gaining clues as to potential problems and leakage, and more.
This Rich Text editor now opens and saves RTF, plain text, HTML, and PDF, in which it preserves as much text styling as possible.
Now parses the PDF file itself and builds a structured summary of all the objects it contains. Ideal for locating orphaned and other leaking content.
Now saves windows sizes and positions, and settings for display of thumbnails and raw PDF source.
Restores XML metadata stored in text format, and now gives the option to view raw PDF source as well.
Looking at the source of a PDF file isn’t easy, as most of it is streams of binary data. Here’s an easier way, which also comes with a search feature.