Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:22:46 -0500 From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: replacement for Acrobat Professional? Message-ID: <20060111142246.GA50712@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <43C49EC7.9020003@daleco.biz> References: <20060109195342.GA35789@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <736C118F-A6DD-4476-9437-935C43A22771@submonkey.net> <20060110222616.GA45029@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <20060110234752.GO73071@wantadilla.lemis.com> <43C49EC7.9020003@daleco.biz>
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:59:35PM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > 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. So, for posterity... I'd rate pdftops and flpsed as 95% of the way there for this audience. Some small things don't work, particularly "layered" elements. Some parts of the manuscript I was given were highlighted, for example. In the original the highlighting is transparent, while the pdftops/flpsed combination the highlighting obliterates the underlying text. There are other, very minor variations. That last 5% might not be critical for most people; I would certainly use it for preparing personal documents, or even documents within my company. But OpenOffice's PDF export is far easier for preparing PDFs in general. for this application, pdftops/flpsed is not acceptable. When you dump a PDF directly to a web press and produce a book from it, tiny variations in page placement or layout will result in a really useless print run. But from the various tools people have suggested and that I've tried last night and this morning, it's as good as we have. Thanks for all the help, I'll do this the old-fashioned way. ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ "The cloak of anonymity protects me from the nuisance of caring." -Non Sequitur
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