Re: [vox-tech] PDF editor?

2004-03-22 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting wild bill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wednesday 17 March 2004 13:12, Norm Matloff wrote: you might take a look at http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~phelps/Multivalent/Tools/ www.freshmeat.net/projects/vtools Sensational find! Thank you. You have no idea how long I've been wanting to find

Re: [vox-tech] PDF editor?

2004-03-19 Thread wild bill
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 13:12, Norm Matloff wrote: you might take a look at http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~phelps/Multivalent/Tools/ www.freshmeat.net/projects/vtools Bill Does anyone know of an open-source editor for PDF files? All I want to do at present is insert Web links into a PDF

Re: [vox-tech] PDF editor?

2004-03-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:07:23AM -0800, Jonathan Stickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Peter Jay Salzman wrote: On Thu 18 Mar 04, 8:08 AM, Jonathan Stickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:12:03PM -0800, Norm Matloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

Re: [vox-tech] PDF editor?

2004-03-19 Thread Ken Herron
--On Friday, March 19, 2004 07:02:41 PM -0800 Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when he said that pdf is an output format (paraphrased). postscript is even more of an output format. i think norm's original email mentioned he wanted to edit some links. maybe it was to insert

Re: [vox-tech] PDF editor?

2004-03-18 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:12:03PM -0800, Norm Matloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone know of an open-source editor for PDF files? All I want to do at present is insert Web links into a PDF file. Norm, enjoyed your H1B pages for years... PDF is _not_ an

Re: [vox-tech] PDF editor?

2004-03-18 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 18 Mar 04, 8:08 AM, Jonathan Stickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:12:03PM -0800, Norm Matloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone know of an open-source editor for PDF files? All I want to do at present is insert Web links into a

Re: [vox-tech] PDF editor?

2004-03-18 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: On Thu 18 Mar 04, 8:08 AM, Jonathan Stickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:12:03PM -0800, Norm Matloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone know of an open-source editor for PDF files? All I want to do at present is

Re: [vox-tech] PDF editor?

2004-03-18 Thread Ken Bloom
On 2004.03.17 13:12, Norm Matloff wrote: Does anyone know of an open-source editor for PDF files? All I want to do at present is insert Web links into a PDF file. I'm not sure how you're generating the PDF document, but I noticed the suggestion that if you're generating it with OpenOffice,

Re: [vox-tech] PDF editor?

2004-03-18 Thread Richard J. Mancusi
Jonathan Stickel wrote: snip If it's just a single page, you can convert the pdf to ps (use pdftops, _not_ pdf2ps), import it into xfig, write on top of it, and export back to pdf. snip Jonathan Thank you for teaching me the difference between pdftops and pdf2ps. Step #2 is import into

[vox-tech] .pdf editor

2004-03-18 Thread Lewis Perdue
OpenOffice can create and edit .pdfs -- at least I assume it can since I use StarOffice to do that. Send lawyers, guns and money. -- Warren Zevon = CONTACT DATA =""> Lewis Perdue, 462 W. Napa St., Suite 201, Sonoma, CA 95476, Phone: 707-939-6655, fax: 707-940-4146 Email: [EMAIL

Re: [vox-tech] PDF editor?

2004-03-18 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Richard J. Mancusi wrote: Jonathan Stickel wrote: snip If it's just a single page, you can convert the pdf to ps (use pdftops, _not_ pdf2ps), import it into xfig, write on top of it, and export back to pdf. snip Jonathan Thank you for teaching me the difference between pdftops and

Re: [vox-tech] .pdf editor

2004-03-18 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Bill Kendrick wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:30:17PM -0800, Lewis Perdue wrote: OpenOffice can create and edit .pdfs -- at least I assume it can since I use StarOffice to do that. I know it can create (File-Export PDF) as of version 1.1. However, I don't believe it can /import/ them.

Re: [vox-tech] PDF editor?

2004-03-18 Thread Richard J. Mancusi
Thank you Jonathan Stickel wrote: Richard J. Mancusi wrote: Jonathan Stickel wrote: snip If it's just a single page, you can convert the pdf to ps (use pdftops, _not_ pdf2ps), import it into xfig, write on top of it, and export back to pdf. snip Jonathan Thank you for teaching me the

Re: [vox-tech] PDF editor?

2004-03-18 Thread Charles McLaughlin
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:12:03PM -0800, Norm Matloff wrote: Does anyone know of an open-source editor for PDF files? All I want to do at present is insert Web links into a PDF file. Norm Matloff I've used a program called Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/) to overlay text onto PDF files.

[vox-tech] PDF editor?

2004-03-17 Thread Norm Matloff
Does anyone know of an open-source editor for PDF files? All I want to do at present is insert Web links into a PDF file. Norm Matloff ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] PDF editor?

2004-03-17 Thread Dave Margolis
You may want to look at PDFLib - http://www.pdflib.com/ It's not a GUI editor, obviously, but you can achieve what you're talking about programmatically (with C, PERL, PHP, etc.) Also, you might consider opening and existing Word or OO doc in OO, adding your hyperlinks, and then saving as

Re: [vox-tech] PDF editor?

2004-03-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:12:03PM -0800, Norm Matloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone know of an open-source editor for PDF files? All I want to do at present is insert Web links into a PDF file. Norm, enjoyed your H1B pages for years... PDF is _not_ an inherently editable format