From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 06:00:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 EEA3316A41F; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:00:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC9943D49; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:00:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k0B5xfoO004476; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:59:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <43C49EC7.9020003@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:59:35 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051026 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" References: <20060109195342.GA35789@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <736C118F-A6DD-4476-9437-935C43A22771@submonkey.net> <20060110222616.GA45029@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <20060110234752.GO73071@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20060110234752.GO73071@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org, "Michael W. Lucas" Subject: Re: replacement for Acrobat Professional? 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, 11 Jan 2006 06:00:06 -0000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >On Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 17:26:17 -0500, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > >>On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:18:35PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: >> >> >>>On 9 Jan 2006, at 19:53, Michael W. Lucas wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Hi folks, >>>> >>>>I've been handed a whole bunch of PDFs and asked to make my comments >>>>directly in them. I'm sure there's something in ports that can do >>>>that, but my search hasn't turned up anything. (Of course, I really >>>>have no idea what I'm looking for, which hampers the search. :-) >>>> >>>> >>>A printer and a red biro out of the question? >>> >>> >>It's worked for me for twenty years now. >> >>Emailing them back to five or six people so they can make further >>comments is the hard part. :-) >> >> > >It looks as if people have missed the point that you want to edit >PDFs. If you find a good solution, will you post it, please? > >Greg > > Well, I think Denny had it pretty well when he said: "http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/print/flpsed.html" #grep -i PDF /usr/ports/print/flpsed/pkg-descr Using pdftops, which is part of xpdf one can convert PDF documents to * Import and export PDF. Therefore it can be used as a PDF editor. It's up to Michael, though, to tell us how well it works, I suppose. No package in packages-6-current/Latest, so I'm building from src, and headed for bed before it gets done I imagine. Kevin Kinsey -- Zero Mostel: That's it baby! When you got it, flaunt it! Flaunt it! -- Mel Brooks, The Producers