On Friday 14 May 2010 13:40:35 John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:31 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 05/14/2010 06:14 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:52 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > > >> Look at PDF. PDF became a ISO/IEC standard but we (at linux) still > > >> lack for a PDF editor that can compete with Acrobat Professional. > > > > > > That comment really strikes home. We are working on a potential major > > > Windows desktop replacement project. The two things that are > > > absolutely killing us are email and a viable substitute for Acrobat > > > Standard. We can roughly mimic everything Acrobat does > > > > Forms, you mean? > > No, editing the PDF file, e.g., adding text, stamps, markups. > > They can't run their business if the functionality is missing with no > viable workaround. Editing a page at a time in GIMP, editing a page at > a time in Inkscape and watching it crash on large construction drawings > after consuming 3GB of RAM, importing a page at a time in Scribus only > to have it display anything half the time, seeing negative images or > text flowing over the margins in OpenOffice pdfimport, the ability to > only add text in pdfedit, xournal, or flpsed, deskewing and OCR in > gscan2pdf really aren't viable options. That's the most cogent argument I've heard for paying for Adobe Acrobat (or whatever they call it now) for now, and donating *at least* as many resources toward and professional F(L)OSS PDF editor. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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