Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:33:08 -0500 From: Damian Wiest <dwiest@vailsys.com> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: George Allan <d1945@sbcglobal.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pdf editor Message-ID: <20060927173308.GA19066@dfwdamian.vail> In-Reply-To: <20060927131403.GA18332@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> 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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On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:14:03PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > 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 Agree on a document format? -Damian
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