stow (was: Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF)

2007-07-30 Thread Alex Schuster
Thufir writes: > On 7/29/07, Roger Luethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No ebuild, though. > you compiled on your own? ok. what happens if you want to uninstall > it, though? There usually is a "make uninstall", too. But I suggest to use stow, or better, xstow, to install software. It goes

Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-30 Thread Roger Luethi
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:35:38 -0700, Thufir wrote: > you compiled on your own? ok. what happens if you want to uninstall > it, though? No need to install it. You can do something like this: java -jar /path/to/src/jarnal-current/jarnal.jar -t /path/to/src/jarnal-current/annotate.jaj -b foo.pdf

Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 30 July 2007 04:49:47 am Pavel Sanda wrote: > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge pdfedit OP, Please don't do this or your next emerge world will be (more) painful. You may also end up getting more unstable packages than you absolutely need. Pavel, please don't suggest this is a sane way to r

Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-30 Thread Pavel Sanda
> but it seems a bit complex, > masked packages and so forth (?). either get sunrise : emerge -va layman echo "source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf" >> /etc/make.conf layman -f -a sunrise > > Then, there's this ebuild just loitering around in cybe

Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-29 Thread Thufir
On 7/29/07, Roger Luethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Jarnal is the best tool I've seen for this purpose so far. You can load a > PDF as a background, paint/write all over it and export the result as PDF > again. > > No ebuild, though. > > Roger [...] you compiled on your own? ok. what hap

Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-29 Thread Roger Luethi
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:29:52 +, Thufir wrote: > The tools I found are Xfig and flpsed. Xfig is a general image editor, > while flpsed is specifically for marking up PDF files. It's important > to note that neither of these programs can actually edit PDF files. > Rather, they can be used to add

Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-25 Thread Thufir
I emerged gimp, but am still emerging krita and kde. From gimp, as advertised, I was able to insert text and save the file as foo.xcf, but need krita, apparently, to convert the xcf file to a pdf, at least according to the tutorial. This is workable, but kludgy. I'd like one app to do it all.

Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-25 Thread Philip Webb
070725 Thufir wrote: > I just want to add text on top of a PDF, resulting in a new file. > what do other people do? Pdftk is generally good: you could make a PDF of the text you want to add (eg using Open Office), then use Pdftk to add it to your existing PDF. -- ,,==

Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:29:52 + Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just want to add text on top of a PDF, resulting in a new file. I'm > not concerned with encryption, authorization, nor really "editing" the > PDF itself -- just ending up with a new PDF with my text on top. > > I read

[gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-25 Thread Thufir
I found this via google: "The Tools The tools I found are Xfig and flpsed. Xfig is a general image editor, while flpsed is specifically for marking up PDF files. It's important to note that neither of these programs can actually edit PDF files. Rather, they can be used to add new text and graphi