From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 27 13:17:55 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 8DAE816A492 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:17:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7DFA43D49 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:17:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from isis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.63]) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GSZIE-0006nl-GW; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:17:49 +0100 Received: from mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.184.33]) by isis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GSZH4-0007ND-86; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:16:33 +0100 Received: from mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost.men.bris.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8RDE4J8018495; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:14:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from shterenl@localhost) by mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k8RDE4VI018494; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:14:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk: shterenl set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:14:03 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: George Allan Message-ID: <20060927131403.GA18332@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <45194B55.6050609@verizon.net> <20060927124549.GA568@home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060927124549.GA568@home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 13:17:55 -0000 > 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? anton