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Re: pdf editor



On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:

>on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 08:34:29AM +0100, Brett Parker (brettparker@linuxfreemail.com) wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:20:55AM +0530, harsha wrote:
>> > hi,
>> >
>> > > Sounds like the poster wanted to fill in PDF Forms, and the only app I know
>> > > that can do that is Acrobat Reader.
>> >
>> > hmmn there is no GNU utility for the same purpose. I have a problem
>> > in viewing some pdf files. xpdf refuses to open them but acrobat
>> > reader reads them. is it because the pdf files are encrypted or
>> > something like that. I haven't tried xpdf-i yet. poor bandwidth at
>> > the present moment. will check it out later though
>>
>> personally, I use gv to view pdf files, works for me :)
>
>Awesome!  Didn't realize that was possible.  I've recently removed the
>free (beer) but not free (speech) Adobe Acrobat Reader from all my
>systems, and encourage others to do similarly.

It's a start!  BTW, I prefer to think of Acrobat as Free (beer) but not
Free (Dmitriy) :)

>PS:  Brett, post your GPG public key to public keyserver.
>
>    $ gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --send-keys brettparker
>
>Adding a 'keyserver' line to ~/.gnupg/options will allow you to
>automatically download new keys, and means you don't have to specify a
>'--keyserver' option on the command-line.  Keyservers peer keys
>automajickally.
>
>

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