pdf editors (was: Acrobat reader 7.0 is out

[Matt Price]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:51:10PM +0100, Philippe Landau wrote:
> Matt Price wrote:
> >But I think that the whole acrobat vs. evince debate misses
> >the point that the REAL missing functionality has been, for a long
> >time now, a suitable pdf editor.  One is finally under development --
> >flpsed (http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/#flpsed).  It's by no
> >means perfect, but it's improving by leaps and bounds, and the
> >capacity to save my filled-in forms has been a livesaver.  
> >
> >So I'd sooner recommend folks to help test/develop flpsed than evince
> >does, while flpsed adds a much-sought-after new capacity to the Linux
> >toolkit. 
> how does it compare to kword ?

I'd never used kword so I didn't know about its pdf import capability!
 But it seems to have serious flaws -- I tried with just one document
 (using 1.3.5-2, again on debian sid), and the layout was dramatically
 distorted when imported into kword.  flpsed words directly with
 postscript files, so layout is not affected.  This is important as
 pdf really only exists in order to ensure perfect replication of text
 and layout together...

so I'd say flpsed is better, though its editing capabilities are much
more limited (can't change existing text, can only add new text as a
kind of new layer over the old).  


matt

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