I purchased the business edition of PDF Studio:
http://www.qoppa.com/
There's a version for Linux and one for Windows and Mac.
It's my default pdf program and I like it, but I have to admit that
Windows Foxit is better. I've seen Foxit OCR material that PDF Studio
cannot.
The reason that I purchased a commercial program is that I plan to take
Windows off my computers when Windows 9 expires in 2019, and I'm
experimenting with using Linux in my business. PDF Studio is one step
in that direction.
Bob
On 08/04/2015 10:56 AM, Chris Jenks wrote:
Dear Carl,
I recently searched for a (free) PDF editor for linux to deal with
the situations you describe but couldn't find anything adequate. As I
remember there was at least one commercial linux application that
looked like it might work but I wasn't willing to buy it (I see a few
listed for sale at this time).
What I ended up doing was opening the documents in Acrobat on
Windows and printing them to PDF. The read-only PDF files can then be
read and printed from Linux. Of course this isn't a Linux-only
solution, and what I don't like about it is that I can't edit my own
PDF documents without going to Windows.
Yours,
Chris
On Tue, 4 Aug 2015, Carl Boettiger wrote:
Hi folks,
I occasionally have to deal with Adobe pdf documents that have
embedded forms at work and am looking for some suggestions on
how to manage this on a Linux platform.
Sometimes the files are just plain pdfs, and I can happily mark up on
top of them with an editor like Xournal and export my
marked-up pdf.
When the document has embedded forms that already have some content
entered into them (e.g. by another user on a Windows/mac
platform), that content does not display in evince. I can get it to
display using okular, but cannot print it from okular to
a pdf output without losing the contents of the form.
It appears that Adobe no longer provides support for a linux version
of acroread. I can get older versions of acroread
binaries to install and run just fine, but any attembpt I've made to
print the output (e.g. print to file, or using CUPS pdf
printer device) results in either a blank pdf or ps, or worse a
document that causes any editor to segfault it when I try and
open it.
My current strategy has been to take a screenshot of the pdf; crop
convert the png back to pdf (say, in gimp), and mark it up
in xournal. Needless to say, this isn't ideal.
Any suggestions on how to better handle this situation?
Somewhat worse than the 'ordinary' pdf forms are pdfs that have
XFA-based forms. Opening these under evince or okular just
shows the text: "Please wait...
If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of
the document, your PDF viewer may not be able to display
this type of document." While these do open properly and can be
edited in the dated linux binaries of acroread, I haven't
found any open source editor that can handle them. (It seems there
are good reasons for that, as their may be security issues
etc with this format, but I don't get to choose that). Any way to
deal with these? (Even an online tool would be a
reasonable alternative I guess).
Thanks!
Carl
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http://carlboettiger.info
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