Re: reliable editting of any PDF file
On Feb 13, 2008 3:19 AM, Micha <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:19:38 -0500
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> wrote:
>
> > michael wrote:
> >
> > > I'm struggling to find software to edit a PDF file. Firstly, I'm wary of
> > > using a graphics editor to do the job and pdfedit [1] seems to reject
> > > many of the PDF files I've just tried because they are "linearised"
> > > according to the bug report [2]
> > >
> > > So what joy have others had, or is this the Holy Grail [3]?
> > >
> >
> > I think you are looking at it the wrong way. PDF is supposed to be an "end
> > format". It is not designed for re-editing the documents. The practical
> > solution to this problem is that, you should get hold of the document that
> > was exported into pdf, edit the original document and export it back to pdf
> > again.
> >
> > For example, if you are writing a .tm file and exported it into .pdf. Then
> > you need to get the .tm file, edit it and then export it again.
> >
>
> Yes, but for me for example it would be very useful if I could add notes to
> papers I download to reference in my work (academics, it's what you are
> supposed to do ;-). I don't have access to the originals (with pdf's you rarely
> do actually, people give you the pdf in the first place to make sure that you
> see it properly, not to edit it).
>
> I would have been happy if there was something that could do highlighting,
> notes, lines and really ecstatic if it could actually do equations ...
>
> thought of writing something like that once but never got the time to dig in.
>
http://packages.debian.org/experimental/okular
Experimental package, and requires kde4, though. And I've never used it myself.
--
Kushal
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