Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:43:55 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: replacement for Acrobat Professional? Message-ID: <20060111231355.GA73071@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20060111142246.GA50712@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> 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> <20060111142246.GA50712@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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--M9u+pkcMrQJw6us1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 9:22:46 -0500, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > 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. ===> Generating temporary packing list install -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 /usr/ports/print/flpsed/work/flpsed-0.3.5/src/flpsed /usr/X11R6/bin install -o root -g wheel -m 444 /usr/ports/print/flpsed/work/flpsed-0.3.5/README /usr/X11R6/share/doc/flpsed *sigh* Yet Another Undocumented Program. "README" is 92 lines long, half of which deals with installation issues. I'll look later. > 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. And ghostscript is even easier. I'd need convincing that any PDF editor is the correct way to prepare documents; there are much more precise tools available for that. I thought your original requirement was to mark up existing PDFs, and it still sounds like a good idea for that. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --M9u+pkcMrQJw6us1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDxZEzIubykFB6QiMRAvNPAKCaRYjXbNRmavcNwTJcuNE8a9pkMwCfa28I 5UDuxhE764sgcAl4/6kw6mM= =Av4N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --M9u+pkcMrQJw6us1--
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