On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 6:29 PM, intech <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:14 AM, David Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> I love PDFMod, I find it very useful ad hope to one day see it grow to be a >> powerful PDF editing tool that retaining it's intuitive simplicity and >> elegance. I am though not convinced either that this is desktop material, it >> would help if we had some better idea of what kind of user PDFMod aims to >> please and what use cases we are aiming at addressing. >> E.g. I have often found myself reading slides or books in evince and pages >> of ads are inserted, blank pages or itemized lists being added over several >> slides which is useful during presentation but when reading the slides often >> can be annoying. In these cases it would be very useful to be able to call >> up PDFMod from evince and simply remove them. This doesn't though sound like >> a sufficiently normal scenerio to warrant presence in the default desktop. > > I don't think its too hard to come up with use cases for this. Nearly > every time I do support, people are confused on why they can edit some > documents (those with the doc or odt extension) but not others (PDF), > but here are some realistic use cases (many of which are from personal > experience): > - Adam downloads a large instructions manual for his printer. He wants > to send instructions on how to setup the email scanner to his coworker > Anita, but not require sending the entire document to him. Instead, he > wants to just send the specific pages Anita needs to perform on the > scanner to Anita's email, instead of requiring Anita to find the > specific 2 pages in the entire 100 page document. > - Barry uses his scanner to scan documents, which automatically puts a > PDF in a shared folder he can access. After scanning the 10 page > document, he realized that he scanned an extra page. Currently, Barry > rescans the entire document to remove that extra page. > - Cindy received a document from her boss that includes graphs in > landscape layout and text in portrait. Using Evince, she currently > gets frustrated as she keeps having to rotate the document depending > on what page she is on, and she wants to fix the document once and for > all, with the pages rotated in the PDF to match her document, so when > she sends it out to others to work on, it appears correctly without > anyone else having to suffer through rotating each page like she did. > - Dan scanned the lease he just signed to keep a digital record of it. > After he finished scanning it, he realized he forgot to scan an > addendum to the lease and wants to add it onto the end of the PDF. > - Eric scanned all of the receipts for his recent business trip and > wants to get reimbursed for it. In order to make it easier for HR, he > wants to have the receipts ordered by date, but he did not insert them > into the scanner in that order. He wants an easy way to have the > receipts in the proper order instead of having to rescan all of them.
These are great! I've added them to a new page on the wiki: http://live.gnome.org/PdfMod/UseCases Gabriel _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
