Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Does the latest version of mercator have PDF adapters

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Originally posted by: Margo

Hi,

There isn't one listed, and by its nature it would be hard to create an adapter -- PDF being an image.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

While PDF files may seem like images, I wouldn't describe them as image files although they do preserve formatting. See http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/adobepdf.html. You're absolutely correct that an adapter would be difficult. But not impossible. There are third party tools that could called from a batch or script adapter to create PDFs. I don't know what you'd have to do to read from a PDF. I looked at the specs once but they were beyond my skill set to read in the PDF as data.

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Originally posted by: Margo

It would be incredibly hard, depending upon what constituted the original document and how the document was transposed to PDF. If scanned, the amound of embedded graphics could make "mapping" of content very strange indeed. If fully text based and created in a later version of Adobe per se -- -- -- now I'm going to want to figure it out!
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Perhaps you are recalling early PDF files which as I recall were static presentations of the source document. Today's are searchable and can contain retrievable data. You can combine Intelligent Documents with XML to retrieve data from within documents. So presumably it should be possible to build an adapter.

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Originally posted by: janhess

Someone did do an unofficial PDF adapter for vn 6.5 but I don't think it was ever officially adapted.
I use fop with XSLT to create PDFs but this requires an understanding of XSLT.
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