Re: reliable editting of any PDF file
Angus Auld wrote:
> --- 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
>
and one at debian-multimedia.org, which is a great repository to add to your
/etc/apt/sources.list for loads of other goodies:
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main
--
Chris.
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