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 -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- You roll an 18 in Dex and see if you don't end up with a girlfriend =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
