On 7 April 2010 10:54, Lars Nooden <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4/6/10 9:12 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: > >> PDF is IMO the primary file format used by Scribus. Scribus IMO supports >> pdf more deeply then does OpenOffice.org. >> > > A few times a week we get threads with misperceptions about PDF. > > PDF is a for the terminal stage of a document's life cycle. > From PDF, it can go two places: the printer or the bit bucket. > > We could save a lot of time and grief for the users or the list to get the > word out that the original documents must be saved and that if all they have > is the PDF, then they have lost the document, it is gone and not coming > back. "Gone, gone, gone beyond, completely gone beyond, disablement, > bail..." ;) > > Importing PDF is really a form of disaster mitigation and in many cases > provides only an uneditable B.L.O.B. to embed in another file. > > Mac and Linux desktops have good PDF export and it is clear that it is > export. So that helps. > > > Well, Draw is just a drawing package, and OpenOffice.org is just an >> suite of office applications but together they can do most of what used >> to require a Desktop Publishing system. >> > > One DTP feature missing from OOo Draw is the ability for text to flow > between text frames. QuarkXPress would be overkill for most users. > > The last few times I've had to send things to a commercial printer they've > wanted SVG, but would begrudgingly accept encapsulated PDF. > I didn't get a look at the software used, it would be useful to know, but > it would help if Adobe's products supported ODF. > > ... There seems to be a steady stream of folks asking about MS ... >> > > Some is legit. Some is just trolling / shilling. > > So if they just ask about MS... >> > > If they ask anything about MS (and are legitimate) then it is always > necessary to ask clarifying questions about what is it they are really > trying to do. However, the individual will likely have difficulty > expressing it or may speak Microserf which uses its own words instead of > industry standard nomenclature. > > Regards > /Lars > > > There are probably many reasons, apart from disaster mitigation, why I may want to convert a PDF document into an editable form. The most obvious is that the document isn't mine but I nevertheless want to modify it in some way and re-publish it. For example, I may want to re-publish it after converting parts of it into links pointing at other, possibly as yet unwritten, documents. Or I may want to incorporate [large] parts of it in a new document which I plan to publish. In either case, converting the PDF to an editable format seems to me to be quite a legitimate requirement. Having said that, shall we now adjourn to the discussion list? Please. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
