On Feb 13, 2008 1:42 AM, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 15:27 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2008 1:49 PM, Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Yes, but for me for example it would be very useful if I could add notes > > > to > > > papers I download to reference in my work (academics, it's what you are > > > supposed to do ;-). I don't have access to the originals (with pdf's you > > > rarely > > > do actually, people give you the pdf in the first place to make sure that > > > you > > > see it properly, not to edit it). > > > > > > I would have been happy if there was something that could do highlighting, > > > notes, lines and really ecstatic if it could actually do equations ... > > > > > > thought of writing something like that once but never got the time to dig > > > in. > > > > Evince got form support in 2.20, and was originally supposed to get > > annotation support at the same time. Unfortunately, that was pushed > > back, and according to the roadmap[1], it is now scheduled for 2.24 > > (due this fall). In the meantime, I believe Adobe Reader supports > > annotations and there is a native Linux version. > > > > just tried to install Adobe Reader 7 from their web site > http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/productinfo/systemreqs/ > > but got errors when running Alien > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src$ sudo alien --scripts AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2-1.i486.rpm > mkdir: cannot create directory `AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2': File exists > Package build failed. Here's the log: > dh_testdir > dh_testdir > dh_testroot > dh_clean -k -d > dh_installdirs > dh_installdocs > dh_installchangelogs > find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 | \ > xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/adobereader-enu > dh_compress > dh_makeshlibs > dh_installdeb > dh_shlibdeps > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libResAccess.so' not > recognize > {& many more...} > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of `NEEDED libResAccess.so' not > recognized > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: could not find any packages for > libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0. so.0 > {etc} > > > However I see from http://www.bxlug.be/en/articles/128 that I can use > "debian-marillat" sources - does anybody use acroread from there for > *editting* PDFs?
I've been using the acroread from Marrilat's archive for a few years and it works well. I only need to enter data into pdf forms and print them so I have been using evince for the last month or so with good results. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
