PDF Editor in Ubuntu

[Karl F. Larsen]

H.S. wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>   
>> NoOp wrote:
>>     
>>> On 05/29/2009 12:07 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>>>> Interesting. Can you check aptitude policy and see that you have all
>>>>>> the dependencies installed?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Pretty sure that I had. I'll reinstall it later today (I uninstalled
>>>>> yesterday) when I have a chance.
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Thanks. CC me so that I'll be sure to read it.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Won't be until later this weekend... I'm backing down the test machine
>>> from jaunty to intrepid in order to try and troubleshoot why printing to
>>> cups-pdf no longer saves the fonts in the pdf file. Result is that
>>> jaunty renders cups-pdf pretty useless regardless of which ppd driver is
>>> used. 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]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>     Guys I have made .pdf files from .odt files with open office and 
>> they open fine with the linux viewer Evince but when I try to load them 
>> to Scribus it says they are not good and will not load them. This is 
>> Linux to Linux and it fails. Sribus will load other .pdf files I have 
>> that came from other sources.
>>
>>     I think the message is that OO makes a poor pdf and we need a better 
>>     
>
> Try OOo -> Print to PS -> convert the resulting PS file to PDF using
> ps2pdf. See if scribus complains about the resulting PDF.
>
> ps2pdf is the most robust method I have seen of producing PDFs on Linux.
> Been using this method since last some years with LaTeX, never fails. If
> scribus complains with this PDF as well, maybe something is the matter
> with scribus.
>
> Regards.
>
>
>   
    Hello and here is what happens. If I save an OO with a jpg picture 
within as a .pdf the normal Linux viewer displays it fine and it looks 
good. But if I use pdf2ps to make it a .ps file it is total curruption.

    I used OO and told it to print to a file and it did in ps. This file 
DVD.ps looks fine with the viewer and I then applied ps2dvd and that 
worked fine and looked good in the viewer. But Scribus upchucked and 
didn't display even this good pdf. I am not going to say that Scribus is 
wrong however because I do have other non-OO pdf files it loads fine. I 
think the OO pdf may well still be at fault.

    I have made some test pdf files with Scribus and they look fine with 
everything. So I think Scribus will emerge as the best pdf modifier in 
Linux. But I need to do more work to prove this.


Karl


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