Re: reliable editting of any PDF file
--- michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 15:27 -0800, Kelly Clowers
> wrote:
> > On Feb 12, 2008 1:49 PM, Micha
> <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Evince got form support in 2.20, and was
> originally supposed to get
> > annotation support at the same time.
> Unfortunately, that was pushed
> > back, and according to the roadmap[1], it is now
> scheduled for 2.24
> > (due this fall). In the meantime, I believe Adobe
> Reader supports
> > annotations and there is a native Linux version.
> >
>
> just tried to install Adobe Reader 7 from their web
> site
>
http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/productinfo/systemreqs/
>
> but got errors when running Alien
> mkb@amd64:~/src$ sudo alien --scripts
>>snip>>
There is a .deb package available from Adobe here:
http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/8.x/8.1.2/enu/AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2-1.i386.deb
That will rid you of the alien errors at least.
HTH's.
Best regards.
--
Angus
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to me no other than human inventions, setup to terrify and
enslave mankind - and to monopolize power and profit."
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