Yay for replying to 6 month old posts.
also sprach martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.14.0153 +0200]:
also sprach Hanspeter Kunz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.13.2218 +0100]:
have a look at
http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/
sounds promising. never tried it though.
This
also sprach Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.27.2018 +0200]:
So, in light of this, would anybody know how to tell Firefox to
explicitly use some given fonts in what it prints?
You can probably add a user stylesheet with @media selectors:
@media print {
body {
font-family: foo
Sorry for jumping latter in this discussion, but this is one of the
topics that interest me the most (preparing documents, including for
archival).
On Aug 14 2006, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach George Borisov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.14.1338 +0100]:
The resulting file is _not_
On Saturday 12 August 2006 15:14, martin f krafft wrote:
I am in need of a way to annotate PDF documents, and to highlight
text therein. I cannot find a single tool to do this. Does anyone
know what I could use?
Or is Adobe Acrobat Standard (which is not available for Linux), the
only way?
Thibaut Paumard wrote:
These don't:
- print from oowriter, then ps2pdf;
- scribus (1.3.2) export PDF.
Hmm I just exported a 50page document using scribus 1.2.5 and text
searching works when I open the pdf in acroread. The following is what
the scribus devs said: scribus inserts texts
martin f krafft wrote:
skencil (which was sketch) does not seem to import either. pstoedit,
well, what should I say, it kinda works, except my 120 kb 20 page
test paper is now a 24 Mb file and no longer searchable with xpdf.
Probably because most (if not all) free PDF-generating programs
Le lundi 14 août 2006 à 11:56 +0100, George Borisov a écrit :
martin f krafft wrote:
skencil (which was sketch) does not seem to import either. pstoedit,
well, what should I say, it kinda works, except my 120 kb 20 page
test paper is now a 24 Mb file and no longer searchable with xpdf.
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 02:19:56PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
I tried wine, and since Acrobat requires IE 5.5, it failed. I don't
have XOver Office and I won't shell out money for it without knowing
it'll work 100%.
IE6 should work fine under wine. You might want to try out WineTools [1] if
Thibaut Paumard wrote:
Fortunately, this statement is as false as can be. Under GNU/Linux, the
easy way of creating a PDF from whatever is to print to PS and then run
ps2pdf on the output. The resulting PDF is of good quality, searchable,
and often smaller than the input PS. Using LaTeX, you
CJ van den Berg wrote:
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 02:19:56PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
I tried wine, and since Acrobat requires IE 5.5, it failed. I don't
have XOver Office and I won't shell out money for it without knowing
it'll work 100%.
IE6 should work fine under wine. You might want to
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:53:44 +0100
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
also sprach Hanspeter Kunz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.13.2218 +0100]:
have a look at
http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/
sounds promising. never tried it though.
This looks pretty interesting. Thanks.
George Borisov wrote:
Thibaut Paumard wrote:
Fortunately, this statement is as false as can be. Under GNU/Linux, the
easy way of creating a PDF from whatever is to print to PS and then run
ps2pdf on the output. The resulting PDF is of good quality, searchable,
and often smaller than the input
also sprach CJ van den Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.14.1250 +0100]:
IE6 should work fine under wine. You might want to try out WineTools [1] if
you need help getting a basic wine setup running. Of course, as always with
wine, YMMV.
Mh, Acrobat+wine on Linux I could deal with. Knowing of IE6
martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach George Borisov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.14.1338 +0100]:
Just tried to print some text from Firefox to PS and then use ps2pdf.
The resulting file is _not_ searchable (xpdf and evince,) and at
28K is more than twice the size of the same text being printed
Le lundi 14 août 2006 à 13:38 +0100, George Borisov a écrit :
George Borisov wrote:
Thibaut Paumard wrote:
Fortunately, this statement is as false as can be. Under GNU/Linux, the
easy way of creating a PDF from whatever is to print to PS and then run
ps2pdf on the output. The resulting
Thibaut Paumard wrote:
However, in these two tests, the text is copy-and-pastable, as text. So
the problem is not that the PDF is drawn as images. Actually, in the
scribus PDF, I can search a few smaller substrings (like xt in my
sample text test text).
The problem is that original PDF
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:44:41PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
These don't:
- print from oowriter, then ps2pdf;
However, the current oowriter will export PDF directly.
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martin f krafft wrote:
Run 'strings' on the PS it generates and you'll see that it prints
images rather than text. I am not surprised, Firefox comes to us
from Windows. They don't know how to deal with text over there.
This is not fair -- to use W-word on poor Firefox. No, IMHO reasons are
also sprach Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.14.1543 +0100]:
This is not fair -- to use W-word on poor Firefox. No, IMHO reasons are
slightly more complicated than that. They use for printing on non-Windows,
non-Mac (I am not sure about that) platforms Xprint
http://xprint.mozdev.org/,
martin f krafft wrote:
lapse:~ dpkg -l xpr\* | grep '^[[:lower:]]'
#[318]
un xprint none (no description available)
Weird:
Package: firefox
Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, debianutils (= 1.16), libatk1.0-0 (= 1.9.0),
libc6 (= 2.3.6-6), libcairo2 (=
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:31:02AM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote:
martin f krafft wrote:
lapse:~ dpkg -l xpr\* | grep '^[[:lower:]]'
#[318]
un xprint none (no description available)
Weird:
Package: firefox
Depends: fontconfig, psmisc,
also sprach martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.12.2253 +0100]:
Wine or Crossover Office?
Sure, and I am even considering it, but I don't want to shell out
money for Acrobat when there's another tool out there. Which makes
me think I can get it from the university for free anyway,
Le samedi 12 août 2006 à 21:13 +0100, martin f krafft a écrit :
also sprach Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.12.2039 +0100]:
Would pdftops + flpsed + ps2pdf work for you?
Sure a pipline like the one you give would work... if flpsed would
actually do what I want... it's a step in the
also sprach Thibaut Paumard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.13.1436 +0100]:
Sure a pipline like the one you give would work... if flpsed would
actually do what I want... it's a step in the right direction, but
[...]
Would scribus work for you then?
Well, except that neither scribus-ng nor
Le dimanche 13 août 2006 à 15:14 +0100, martin f krafft a écrit :
also sprach Thibaut Paumard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.13.1436 +0100]:
Sure a pipline like the one you give would work... if flpsed would
actually do what I want... it's a step in the right direction, but
[...]
Would
also sprach Thibaut Paumard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.13.1539 +0100]:
It imports at least eps and single page PS pretty well (but of
course not all of them perfectly).
Neither of those two really make it an option when the goal is to
keep notes and highlights together with existing 5-200 page
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 03:14:09PM +0100 or thereabouts, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Thibaut Paumard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.13.1436 +0100]:
Sure a pipline like the one you give would work... if flpsed would
actually do what I want... it's a step in the right direction, but
also sprach Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.13.1552 +0100]:
When you say 'annotate do you mean to add comments or notes to existing
PDFs or to do formatting changes on existing PDFs ?
only add notes, ideally in the form of stickies. I am not even
asking for the ability to move these around
On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 14:19 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.12.2253 +0100]:
Wine or Crossover Office?
Sure, and I am even considering it, but I don't want to shell out
money for Acrobat when there's another tool out there. Which makes
also sprach Hanspeter Kunz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.13.2218 +0100]:
have a look at
http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/
sounds promising. never tried it though.
This looks pretty interesting. Thanks.
First impressions:
- it's Java.
- Ugh!
- it starts pretty quickly, even though
I am in need of a way to annotate PDF documents, and to highlight
text therein. I cannot find a single tool to do this. Does anyone
know what I could use?
Or is Adobe Acrobat Standard (which is not available for Linux), the
only way?
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On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:14:51 +0100, martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I am in need of a way to annotate PDF documents, and to highlight text
therein. I cannot find a single tool to do this. Does anyone know what
I could use?
Would pdftops + flpsed + ps2pdf work for you?
--
Hubert Chan
also sprach Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.12.2039 +0100]:
Would pdftops + flpsed + ps2pdf work for you?
Thank you for taking the time to reply, Hubert!
Sure a pipline like the one you give would work... if flpsed would
actually do what I want... it's a step in the right direction, but
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martin f krafft wrote:
I am in need of a way to annotate PDF documents, and to highlight
text therein. I cannot find a single tool to do this. Does anyone
know what I could use?
Or is Adobe Acrobat Standard (which is not available for Linux),
also sprach Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.12.2236 +0100]:
martin f krafft wrote:
I am in need of a way to annotate PDF documents, and to highlight
text therein. I cannot find a single tool to do this. Does anyone
know what I could use?
Or is Adobe Acrobat Standard (which is
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