pdf editors

[Philippe Landau]

Matt Price wrote:
>>>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  [...]
>>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.  
right.

> 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...
pdf is stored as vector graphics, right ?
postscript too ?

> 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).  
oh ...
do they plan to allow full text editing ? :-)

kind regards     philippe