JimD wrote: >Justin R Findlay wrote: > > >>On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 05:54:00PM -0400, JimD wrote: >> >> >>>Are there any tools/editors to edit a pdf or ps file? I am digitizing >>>some books. I have the books as pdf and can convert that to postscript, >>>text, html. >>> >>>I would like to be able to insert a few graphics into the PDF files. I >>>could convert to plain text, edit in OOo and export to PDF. However, I >>>lose all formatting doing that. >>> >>>I was hoping there were tools/editors for PDF/PS. What the heck do book >>>writers use? I hope not a word processor. I am only working with small >>>books and it is a pain to have to deal with layout. >>> >>> >>You could open it up in vi and guess about what's going on, or you could >>learn the postscript language. (: Otherwise, there's inkscape and >>scribus that will write to PDF. I don't know what's so hard about >>reading in PDF files if you can write out to them. Good luck. >> >> >>Justin >> >> > >Thanks Justin. I am going to give scribus/inkscape a shot. > >Jim > >
If it helps any, Scribus is a lot like Quark, that real expensive program that newspapers and magizines use. It takes a bitof getting used to but it does a really good job. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
