Re: editing pdf files

["John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com>]

On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 12:01 -0600, hvw59601 wrote:
> Siard wrote:
> > John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> >> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.
> > 
> > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has
> > very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for
> > Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rather limited.
> > 
> > 
> 
> and http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ?
> 
> Hugo
> 
> 
To be fair to Siard, that's really a different issue.  Form filling is
one thing, major manipulation of the original document is another.  Form
filling can be done quite easily with the Acrobat Reader for Linux
although it has its own host of bugs that have been ignored for years by
Adobe - John