On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 22:06:35 -0400 Chris I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What I really despise is pdf attachments. OO will create pdf just
> > fine, but
> > there's no way to read and modify it on linux (that I am aware
of).
>
> There are many pdf viewers for linux. I use gpdf, and have used ggv,
> xpdf, and a few others. They are fairly decent, but the font rendering, > at least on pdf's i have viewed, is terrible. And they lack the ability > to search pdfs (if the pdf itself has said ability). > > That said, acrobat reader is availiable for linux. >
True enough, but there's no way to modify a pdf. You can create pdf easily enough from other files, but you can't update a pdf.
I've never done that on any OS. I'm admittedly not very familiar with the format, but i was under the impression that pdfs were more or less a write-once format.
Apparently I've been missing out :)
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Chris I
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