Re: how to edit a pdf file in linux
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:08:26PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> 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.]
I found Acrobat 4.0 to cause least pain.
> >
> > 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???
which do not tackle my problem of editing /annotating PDF's that I get or
reading annotations in PDF's created by Acrobat 6.0 or later (acrobat
7.0 will be released soon and again there will be no linux version)
Scribus and OpenOffice do a really good job in creating PDF but neither
one can open and display - nedless to say edit and annotate - PDF's
greets
mlo
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