Re: [PLUG] Acrobat for Linux?

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 2:21 PM -0400 8/2/02, Noah silva wrote:
>  > I have a licensed copy of the full Acrobat for Windows product.  On
>  > Linux, I can create PDFs with a variety of software, but I can't "edit"
> >  them as Adobe does not sell a unix version of editor (used to be called
>
> The editing capability seems very limited to me, but looking at how
> acrobat works (Capturing printing API...) it isn't surprising.

	You haven't used Acrobat (the FULL product) much, have you?


> Well this is true, but who really uses Acrobat Reader on linux at
> least?

	People who need the best quality/fidelity of PDF 
viewing...Xpdf and Ghostscript are both wonderful products, BUT 
neither support the complete PDF specification and NEITHER supports 
the "non-content elements".  (well Xpdf does do hyperlinks, but...)



Leonard
(who has code in all Acrobat, Xpdf and Ghostscript ;)
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