[gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread JimD
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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread Justin R Findlay
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
Google for edit PDF +Linux. --- Vladimir On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 17:54 -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

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 23:54, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:54:00 -0400, JimD wrote: I was hoping there were tools/editors for PDF/PS. What the heck do book writers use? Books are normally written in DocBook or TeX and output to PDF/PS at the final stage. -- Neil Bothwick Sure, we just route the main sensor through Data's

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread JimD
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread JimD
Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: Google for edit PDF +Linux. Did that. There wasn't much out there really. Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You roll an 18 in Dex and see if you don't end up with a girlfriend =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol --

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread b.n.
JimD wrote: 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. They use LaTeX. If you plan to write books/articles/whatever in publishing quality,

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread Philip Webb
060613 JimD wrote: Are there any tools/editors to edit a pdf or ps file? eix pdftk * app-text/pdftk Available versions: 1.12 Installed: none Homepage:http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Description: A tool for manipulating PDF documents From the

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread Teresa and Dale
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Editing PDF and/or postscript

2006-06-13 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 19:42 -0400, JimD wrote: Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: Google for edit PDF +Linux. Did that. There wasn't much out there really. The first two results seem to be free versions of commercial product. You didn't specify open source. --- Vladimir -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic