I never said it was "impossible" for a pdf to contain text in any of my messages (and further, I've never even used the word "impossible" in any message I've ever posted to this list, ever.)
And I shouldn't put words in your mouth. I'm sorry. I just interpreted " Acrobat doesn't store text in PDFs" to being that the specifications says it never stores text in pdfs, hence it would be impossible to add. I realized later it could also be interpreted slightly differently (either referring to the applications that create pdfs don't do it or because of common practice). It is a real pain to get the text out and getting worse which each version of pdf.
But back to the Bowerbird case... he contends that his Z.M.L. tool written in gwbasic (or whatever its using these days) can do everything including make coffe, walk the dog, and oh yeah, convert pdfs to a pleasant-to-read format.
I must admit perhaps I wasn't following closely but I think bowerbird just claimed the pdf that he exported was easy to import back as pdf (via copying out the text), not necessarily that he converted an existing pdf file. Of course, I'm probably wrong about that. Without capitols I sometimes get lost ;). Except for reading e.e. cummings I suppose. Again David, I'm sorry if I hurt any feelings or anything along those lines. I known some Palm developers so your name is familiar. They're happy for the help you contributed to the community so I would be in some hot water if I ticked you off by being a little too flippant. For some reason certain threads on this mailing lists tend to warp my brain I think. Wonder if it has anything to do with the odd nesting sensation I get when I read certain parts of gutvol-d. Jon