Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Joerg Gollnick <gentoo102004@×××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:35:45
Message-Id: 200609262233.28751.gentoo102004@joerg.in-berlin.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor by Daniel Gryniewicz
1 Am Dienstag 26 September 2006 20:54 schrieb Daniel Gryniewicz:
2 > On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 13:50 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
3 > > On Tuesday 26 September 2006 10:20, sean <tech.junk@×××××××.net> wrote
4 > > about '[gentoo-amd64] PDF Editor':
5 > > > Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and of course
6 > > > works on 64 bit Gentoo?
7 > >
8 > > PDF isn't meant to be edited. Most (if not all) of the TeX tools in
9 > > portage as well as OpenOffice and KOffice can export to PDF, and anything
10 > > that can print to cups should be able to generate a PDF via the cups-pdf
11 > > fake printer.
12 > >
13 > > That said, I do not know of any application that lets you open an existing
14 > > PDF and--say--correct typos, though I won't go far enough to say one
15 > > doesn't exist.
16 > >
17 >
18 > evince/poppler/kpdf is working on it, but write support is not finished
19 > in poppler yet. I'm not aware of any other pdf editing software (except
20 > acrobat, or course).
21 >
22 > Daniel (evince maintainer)
23 >
24 For simple things like cat some pdf Files I use app-text/mbtpdfasm
25
26 Summary: This program can be used to assemble/merge PDF files, extract
27 information from PDF files, and update the metadata in PDF files.
28
29 Best regards Joerg
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