On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at 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 at 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