Hi all,
Does anybody know of an editor that can do on Linux what Acrobat / Acrobat Pro can do on Mac/Windows? I have tried to use the PDF Import extension to the Open Office which appears barely functional - at least it is so slow as to be almost impractical. I have also tried pdfedit under Linux which seems to work fine but seems to have rather limited functionality. For instance, the capability to make bookmarks or to search through the whole document (as opposed to the current page) seems to be missing there.
Any tips much appreciated.
Cheers,
Boris.
Does anybody know of an editor that can do on Linux what Acrobat / Acrobat Pro can do on Mac/Windows?
Ughh, I am in this mess right now myself.
I have tried to use the PDF Import extension to the Open Office which appears barely functional - at least it is so slow as to be almost impractical. I have also tried pdfedit under Linux which seems to work fine but seems to have rather limited functionality. For instance, the capability to make bookmarks or to search through the whole document (as opposed to the current page) seems to be missing there.
Yeah, I can't stand the interface on that one. Scribus and another one on Fedora at least (Not on that wkst atm) never measured up.
Any tips much appreciated.
For my needs, I ended up using an online tool, funny that is. http://www.pdfescape.com/
If you come across anything good, mention it back here, jlc
Not sure what you are looking to do but have a look at pdfedit. You can get it from the rpmforge repo.
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Does anybody know of an editor that can do on Linux what Acrobat / Acrobat Pro can do on Mac/Windows?
Ughh, I am in this mess right now myself.
I have tried to use the PDF Import extension to the Open Office which appears barely functional - at least it is so slow as to be almost impractical. I have also tried pdfedit under Linux which seems to work fine but seems to have rather limited functionality. For instance, the capability to make bookmarks or to search through the whole document (as opposed to the current page) seems to be missing there.
Yeah, I can't stand the interface on that one. Scribus and another one on Fedora at least (Not on that wkst atm) never measured up.
Any tips much appreciated.
For my needs, I ended up using an online tool, funny that is. http://www.pdfescape.com/
If you come across anything good, mention it back here, jlc _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Boris Epstein borepstein@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Does anybody know of an editor that can do on Linux what Acrobat / Acrobat Pro can do on Mac/Windows? I have tried to use the PDF Import extension to the Open Office which appears barely functional - at least it is so slow as to be almost impractical. I have also tried pdfedit under Linux which seems to work fine but seems to have rather limited functionality. For instance, the capability to make bookmarks or to search through the whole document (as opposed to the current page) seems to be missing there.
Any tips much appreciated.
Cheers,
Boris.
Hi again,
Just to update you on the situation: the best solution I have found thus far is a commercial but cheap one named PDFStudio ( http://www.qoppa.com/psindex.html ). Prices are under US $100. Seems to be doing all we need (much like the Adobe Acrobat Pro ).
Boris.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Boris Epstein borepstein@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Boris Epstein borepstein@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Does anybody know of an editor that can do on Linux what Acrobat / Acrobat Pro can do on Mac/Windows? I have tried to use the PDF Import extension to the Open Office which appears barely functional - at least it is so slow as to be almost impractical. I have also tried pdfedit under Linux which seems to work fine but seems to have rather limited functionality. For instance, the capability to make bookmarks or to search through the whole document (as opposed to the current page) seems to be missing there.
Any tips much appreciated.
Cheers,
Boris.
Hi again,
Just to update you on the situation: the best solution I have found thus far is a commercial but cheap one named PDFStudio ( http://www.qoppa.com/psindex.html ). Prices are under US $100. Seems to be doing all we need (much like the Adobe Acrobat Pro ).
Boris. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Acrobat isn't easy to use either. i find it kinda clunky and not intuitive. Maybe it is the nature of vector graphics and text.
InkScape for graphics imports / exports pdf. The SVG can be edited in theory in a text editor because it is XML.
ps2pdf <--> pdf2ps
xhtml2ps | ps2pdf
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Rob Townley rob.townley@gmail.com wrote:
Acrobat isn't easy to use either. i find it kinda clunky and not intuitive. Maybe it is the nature of vector graphics and text.
InkScape for graphics imports / exports pdf. The SVG can be edited in theory in a text editor because it is XML.
ps2pdf <--> pdf2ps
xhtml2ps | ps2pdf
I have had problems with ps2pdf - a lot of the time it just plain fails, especially if the output is fancy-formatted (like dual columns).
OpenOffice can export its documents as pdfs, which can provide a lot of the functionality, but as for editing an existing PDF, I don't know of a cheap, simple solution. Acrobat is probably the best, and it's expensive (by my budget framework).
mhr
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:25 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Rob Townley rob.townley@gmail.com wrote:
Acrobat isn't easy to use either. i find it kinda clunky and not intuitive. Maybe it is the nature of vector graphics and text.
InkScape for graphics imports / exports pdf. The SVG can be edited in theory in a text editor because it is XML.
ps2pdf <--> pdf2ps
xhtml2ps | ps2pdf
I have had problems with ps2pdf - a lot of the time it just plain fails, especially if the output is fancy-formatted (like dual columns).
OpenOffice can export its documents as pdfs, which can provide a lot of the functionality, but as for editing an existing PDF, I don't know of a cheap, simple solution. Acrobat is probably the best, and it's expensive (by my budget framework).
mhr _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
i am having problems with ps2ascii tonight - wonder if ghostscript versions are clobbering one another.
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