Re: reliable editting of any PDF file
On 13/02/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:22:20PM +0000, michael wrote:
>
> > Yes, one of my requirements (portability) meant that I could see the
> > (annotated) PDF on different machines/architectures *without additional
> > files/software* ie the output is saved as PDF which is readable by all
> > PDF viewers... (I would add that it should be searchable (by word) too
> > which would seem to exclude graphical editors such as GIMP)
>
>
> Then you are using the wrong file format. This is not what PDF is. PDF
> is a portable document format, for distributing basically unmodified and
> unmodifialbe files. There are ways around that as have been discussed,
> but there is not one cross-platform application to do it since it is
> non-standard for the format.
>
> If you are taking an article from, e.g. a journal, and you want to read
> and annotate at the same time, then pick a WYSIWYG editor that can
> import images. Write a script that converts the pdf to an image and
> plunks that image full-size in the file format for the editor. From
> then on, use the editor to annotate the graphical representation of the
> document and share this new document. When all anotations are done,
> print to a pdf file again.
>
> With this setup, now you have to find a WYSIWYG file format that is
> cross platform that all your co-annotators can use. Don't ask me on
> that. For me, cross-platform multi-user editing is done either with
> plain text or LaTex and is not done from a GUI.
>
> Doug.
And if you are thinking that Open Office is the perfect tool for the
job, then know that some files display differently in OOo on Windows
than on Linux. How important is perfect reproduction of the page to
you?
Dotan Cohen
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