On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:23:05PM +0100, Martin Lorenz wrote: > In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > >>>I have just complete a PDF form using both acrobat reader and ps2dpf > > >>>as > > >>>follows: > > >>>1] I filled the form; > > >>>2] I printed the completed form as (PS) file; > > >>>3] I converted the PS output into PDF output with ps2pdf. > > >>> > > I also really miss the capabilities that Acrobat Full Version (and even > Acrobat Reader since Version 6.0) provide for Win$ > > There is as far as I know NOT ONE SINGLE ATTEMPT to implement PDF > editing functionality in any non-windows PDF Reader/display utility. > > Adobe itself stopped developing Linux versions at 5.09 which leads to > the highly unpleasurable situation that many newer PDF documents can by > no means be properly used with linux.
This would also bite people with Acrobat on Windows - is there a "standard" Acrobat version to write PDF's for? [Just as Word 6.0 is usually OK to be read by any later Word version and is often regarded as a lowest common denominator.] > > just to give an example: my boss tends to proof-read my documents using > adobe acrobat 6.0, which forces me to boot windows in order to see his > annotations, because neither xpdf nor acroread 5.09 are able to properly > display those. > > I would love to contribute a solution, but there simply is none except > for writing such a tool by oneself - a task I can't acomplish because I > lack the know-how. > Scribus ???? OpenOffice.org??? Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
