Re: reliable editting of any PDF file
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.
>
> hth
> raju
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