Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:31:37 -0400 From: Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pdf editor Message-ID: <86zmclqhyu.fsf@presario.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20060927131403.GA18332@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> (Anton Shterenlikht's message of "Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:14:03 %2B0100") References: <45194B55.6050609@verizon.net> <B642391B-AF4E-4829-AF5E-035BCD98A42D@gmail.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609271247000.4339@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> <20060927124549.GA568@home> <20060927131403.GA18332@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk>
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Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> 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---
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