On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 07:51 -0400, Steve Fishpaste wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:14:18AM -0400, John A. Sullivan III uttered: > > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:52 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > > <snip> > > > Look at PDF. PDF became a ISO/IEC standard but we (at linux) still lack > > > for a PDF editor that can compete with Acrobat Professional. > > <snip> > > That comment really strikes home. We are working on a potential major > > Windows desktop replacement project. The two things that are absolutely > > killing us are email and a viable substitute for Acrobat Standard. We > > can roughly mimic everything Acrobat does but only with create > > complexity, taking ten times longer to get it done, using several > > applications in the process, having less than comparable results, and > > making the process detestable to the end users who wonder why would > > anyone give up Windows for this. There are couple of admirable efforts > > out there but they have a very, very long way to go - John > > There are competing products to Acrobat Standard; they're not free > though. But the problem is not that other's can't; it's just that most > people don't realize what a complex bit of software engineering > developing a PDF editor is; if it's to be useful at all. > > Check out acrobatuser.com where vendor products for Acrobat other than > just Adobe are often reviewed/discussed/used. > > Thanks for the reference. By taking a peek at the noble pdfedit project, I could begin to see how complex this is and Adobe has done an excellent job in Acrobat Standard as much as they incense me as a software company - John
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