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Re: [PLUG] Acrobat for Linux?
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> 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?
I use it a lot, but mainly for making PDFs of documents. Printing from
apps to the PDF writer is the standard way to make a PDF file (at least
according to their manuals...).
Playing with the editing functionality, it just seemed rather limited, but
editing PDFs isn't something I do often, since usually I will go back to
the source to edit the document, and then print off another PDF of it.
> >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...)
>
usually I use pdf reader when... I have a doc in pdf I need to
read.. that's all.
-- noah silva
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