Re: how to edit a pdf file in linux
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:23:05PM +0100, Martin Lorenz wrote:
> 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.
> > >>>
>
> 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.
This would also bite people with Acrobat on Windows - is there a
"standard" Acrobat version to write PDF's for? [Just as Word 6.0 is
usually OK to be read by any later Word version and is often regarded
as a lowest common denominator.]
>
> 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.
>
Scribus ???? OpenOffice.org???
Andy
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