>>> What type of editing do you want to do? >> I want a faithful reproduction of the pdf file in a totally editable >> form.
>>> Where does OOo fail to do what you want? >> It doesn't do the above. OO writer opens pdf files in Draw - that >> means it's a graphics rather than a document file. >> Perhaps there's a configuration that can change this - which is >> the reason for my post today to users at oo.org. >> Any ideas? >> Douglas Hinds > Well, there are a few PDF editors out there, most of them are crap, but > you have to find out for yourself what suits your need best. I work with development issues and the pdf files I have to deal with describe governmental programs that provide support for certain types of projects. Each program has it's own Prerequisites, including Formats that must be used. So I need underline certain passages and sometimes make them bold. And I need to cite the relevant articles. These are public documents but the text within a pdf file can't be manipulated in that way. Solid Converter PDF is a commercial Win application that does a pretty good job at converting pdf files to rtf or word docs (it will generally keep the flow and graphics intact, providing a number of options through a wizard, which seem to handle most cases). > Someone has already mentioned PDF Editor. I'll try it. I installed PDF Chain (a GUI for PDFTK), which doesn't seem to fit my needs (as described above). > You can also edit PDF files in Scribus I think, and maybe even > Incscape. More than editing, I need the capacity to convert pdf files to a format 00 can handle as a document. > There are also commercial software, one of them is PDF Studio, which I > installed on my system. You can use it without paying anything for a short > period of time and after that you need to purchase or use a somewhat > crippled version… I'll check that out too. > But not everything is free in life, not even for Linux users some times… OO and free unix-like OSs represent a very different approach to IT, with opencode and mutual support being principles that users and developers adhere to. Evolutionary Biologist Lynn Margulis claims that the principle force driving the most significant evolutionary leaps is NOT Natural Selection (as Darwin believed) but rather the integration of previously separate organisms (which allowed Prokaryotes to become Eukayotes - including homo sapiens). Culturally, Collaboration is preferable to Competition but I'm not a purist - we have to deal with things that are available and I use some commercial software (i.e. The Bat!, which as I mentioned earlier, is running pretty well under Wine). Thanks to all here who mentioned possible options, which I will take a look at tomorrow. Douglas Hinds --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
