From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 27 19:29:56 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 984D616A407 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:29:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from i.emre.sahin@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE9DA43D4C for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:29:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from i.emre.sahin@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so78992uge for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:29:55 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=goVKdbeEKXrTCslfsAHHCxbvANEZRsUrLeZpAxoV52emY8ABRjxTAkowF3d1jalJELnDAPXADSRR+k9zdRPucshFsL5l8/RNemJhhpwB4fp6IRTRF5VfJ9UC86HzPIYLdO+jJ5AiIcTfxS+iSvq8LPVpPo1tB+semQgxTeLORrY= Received: by 10.67.117.18 with SMTP id u18mr882032ugm; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:29:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.32.14 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:29:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:29:55 +0300 From: "Emre Sahin" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <86zmclqhyu.fsf@presario.homeunix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45194B55.6050609@verizon.net> <20060927124549.GA568@home> <20060927131403.GA18332@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> <86zmclqhyu.fsf@presario.homeunix.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 19:29:56 -0000 On 9/27/06, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: > Anton Shterenlikht writes: > [...] > > > > 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 > Maybe not here, but in some cases pdftohtml in http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdftohtml/ may help. HTML seems to be the most easily edited format across platforms, yet it is not for printing on paper. For math, MathML support or inline images may be a solution. Ah! By the way, you can see LyX at www.lyx.org. It's like a front-end to LaTeX. The version in the ports is 1.3.x, which is a bit older. (But will give you the idea.) It has a Windows version running on top of MikTeX and the version in the ports works on tetex. It's not perfect for a Word addict and may need some tutorial reading, yet much comfortable than plain LaTeX. Best. Emre