PDF Editor in Ubuntu

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat May 30 00:53:19 UTC 2009


On 05/29/2009 03:21 PM, marc wrote:
> Dotan Cohen said:
> 
>>> But the kde folk are not accepting criticism - all I hear is excuses -
>>> so there is every likelihood that they will do the same thing again.
>>>
>> This is where we disagree. KDE loves criticism, otherwise they wouldn't
>> have dug themselves such a hole!
> 
> Best laugh I've had all day. Nice one :-)
> 
> Anyway, I've decided to see whether gnome will work for me for now - it's 
> that or a Mac. I just discovered gnome-do, and that lets me set-up a lot 
> of the "key command"/aliasing stuff that I rely on, so I'll see how it 
> goes. The down side is that gnome runs hotter on my laptop and the fan is 
> more active.
> 

Just be aware of the cups-pdf issues in jaunty (they work fine in hardy
& intrepid and I think they are not desktop related):

See:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1153731
[bad quality with cups-pdf]
http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7112748
[pdf fonts all jaggy]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-pdf/+bug/381788
[[jaunty] cups-pdf no longer embeds fonts in pdf file]
(my bug report)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-pdf/+bug/366949
[cups-pdf produces large pdfs and text can not be searched]
and, of course the top prize goes to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/362689
[cups-pdf printing missing after Jaunty upgrade]







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