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.
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.
for this application, pdftops/flpsed is not acceptable. When you dump
a PDF directly to a web press and produce a book from it, tiny
variations in page placement or layout will result in a really useless
print run. But from the various tools people have suggested and that
I've tried last night and this morning, it's as good as we have.
It certainly doesn't seem as "full-featured" as some commercial
products (ref. subject line), and my short testing concurs with
yours.
I had some trouble with "image handling" --- I imagine that this
is similar to the "layered elements" you mention; I have no great
wealth of personal knowledge of the PDF format, though.
The author's homepage states that flpsed is still alpha-quality
software. I'd say it looks rather promising for the future, perhaps;
we can hope so, and do what we can to support it.
KDK
--
"God doesn't play dice." --- Albert Einstein
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