Re: how to edit a pdf file in linux
In-reply-to: <2p5lk-3DV-41@gated-at.bofh.it> <2p5uT-3IQ-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <2p7dn-50e-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
> Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> >>>I have just complete a PDF form using both acrobat reader and ps2dpf
> >>>as
> >>>follows:
> >>>1] I filled the form;
> >>>2] I printed the completed form as (PS) file;
> >>>3] I converted the PS output into PDF output with ps2pdf.
> >>>
> > > The PDF form was created (Creator) by `Adobe PageMaker 7.0' and
> > produced
> > (Producer) by `Acrobat Distiller 5.0.2 for Macintosh',
> > and I used `acroread'.
>
> > I don't know if the result will be what you're looking for, but Adobe
> has a
> free non-free "acroread" for Linux. It can be found through this URI for
> /etc/apt/sources.list ::
> >
> deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
>
> The commands:
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get install acroread
>
> and the package info:
>
> Package: acroread
> Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 5.09-woody0.0
> Provides: pdf-viewer, postscript-preview
well i guess that's not the problem here.
I also really miss the capabilities that Acrobat Full Version (and even
Acrobat Reader since Version 6.0) provide for Win$
There is as far as I know NOT ONE SINGLE ATTEMPT to implement PDF
editing functionality in any non-windows PDF Reader/display utility.
Adobe itself stopped developing Linux versions at 5.09 which leads to
the highly unpleasurable situation that many newer PDF documents can by
no means be properly used with linux.
just to give an example: my boss tends to proof-read my documents using
adobe acrobat 6.0, which forces me to boot windows in order to see his
annotations, because neither xpdf nor acroread 5.09 are able to properly
display those.
I would love to contribute a solution, but there simply is none except
for writing such a tool by oneself - a task I can't acomplish because I
lack the know-how.
there are alternative products for win like http://www.pdfeditor.net/,
http://www.jawspdf.com/pdf_editor/,
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/pe_intro.php,
http://www.pdfedit995.com/
greets
mlo
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