Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 21:05, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:43:24PM -0500, John Foster wrote:
> > I want to locate an editor that will run on Linux that will handle .pdf
> > flie format. I really am only interested in one with a WYSIWYG GUI
> > frontend. I just tried kile & it seeems to be partially there but does
> > not appear to have a WYSIWYG mode for its editor. Anyone have any
> > suggestions? Commercial is OK.
>
> This is a common question. It's kind of funny really. Almost every
> single Unix/Gnu/Linux editor in the world can output to PostScript
> (.ps), and there are several program that will convert ps to pdf. So use
> any WYSYWYGY editor you want and then print to a ps file. Then run
> ps2pdf on that file.
>
> One of the most WISIGY is OpenOffice.org (if it's not available in your
> version of Debian (might not be in stable yet) you can download it from
> openoffice.org), in my experience it's about as good as Microsoft
> Office. It even handles reading and writing Microsoft Office documents
> reasonably well. I've heard that recent versions even allow you to
> output *directly* to *pdf*.
>
> P.S. pdf is an output format. You can edit pdf directly, but it's kind
> of dirty :) It's like instead of using vector graphics software
> (sodipodi) or diagram drawing software (dia, visio) and then saving as
> jpeg or tiff, you edit jpeg or tiff directly (using the gimp). Doing
> that isn't necessarily wrong, but in most cases it's too low level.
The OOo 1.1b debs are located here, if you are running sarge or
sid:
deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice/ \
unstable main contrib
However, OOo 1.1b only outputs pdf, and thus is unable to edit
them.
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