From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 27 18:32:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8450F16A494 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:32:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xj2106@columbia.edu) Received: from serrano.cc.columbia.edu (serrano.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.29.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F50743D5C for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:32:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xj2106@columbia.edu) Received: from presario.homeunix.org (dyn-pupin-171-119.dyn.columbia.edu [128.59.171.119]) (user=xj2106 mech=PLAIN bits=0) by serrano.cc.columbia.edu (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8RIVu0l010627 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:32:01 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <45194B55.6050609@verizon.net> <20060927124549.GA568@home> <20060927131403.GA18332@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> From: Xiao-Yong Jin Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:31:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060927131403.GA18332@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> (Anton Shterenlikht's message of "Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:14:03 +0100") Message-ID: <86zmclqhyu.fsf@presario.homeunix.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-No-Spam-Score: Local X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 128.59.29.6 Subject: Re: pdf editor X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:32:02 -0000 Anton Shterenlikht writes: >> Maybe it's time to reconsider the nature of that itch? PDF was never >> meant to be edited (except peripherally), and most definitely not in the >> sense that you're thinking. Consider it a FINAL "print" format, like an >> image that's long since left the photographer, his studio and his camera >> and now exists only as a JPG on a hard drive. >> > > Agreed. But what if I'm writing a paper for a scientific journal > in latex on my freebsd and my coauthors just can't be persuaded to > use anything that's not already exist on their windows PCs? I find > the results of latex2html or latex2rtf of poor quality (even for > editing purposes), i.e. lots of errors, problems with references, > etc. Maybe I need to learn how to use these tools better. > > Lately I was sending them pdfs and got in reply some pdfs that can > only be viewed properly with the latest acrobat, and their comments > are only visible on the screen anyway and cannot at all be printed. > > So what do I do? More broadly, what is the solution for cross- > platform (*nix - windows - vms) editing of a complex document, with > lots of maths, line plots and raster images? I think any kind of mark-up file format that is open will do. Such as LaTeX. Graphics is the hard part, any way. Xiao-Yong > anton > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo---